Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!mintaka!spdcc!ima!iecc!compilers-sender From: windy@strange.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Andrew John Stuart Miller) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Desperately seeking PD lex source Keywords: lex, question Message-ID: Date: 28 Nov 90 11:26:55 GMT References: <3708@rwthinf.UUCP> Sender: compilers-sender@iecc.cambridge.ma.us Reply-To: windy@strange.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Andrew John Stuart Miller) Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 27 Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us u31b3hs@cip-s07.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt) writes: >I am looking for a standard PD lex as C source including its library.... woefull pleadings deleted... >[I haven't seen any other free lex than flex. What's wrong with flex? -John] I work With Michael. The problem is that flex complies under MINIX-PC version 1.5.10, but crashes due to a serious lack of address space (64K text, 64K stack and data!?!) That's what's wrong with flex! Thanks for any help. Andrew Miller -- email: windy@strange.informatik.rwth-aachen.de snail: Ruetscherstr 165 D-5100 Aachen voice: 0049 (0)241 894-355 [Ah. Another possibility is the lex and yacc clones described in Holub's new compilers book, which are available on PC floppy for US$60. They aren't PD, but the restrictions are not unduly onerous. There's an order card in the back of the book. -John] -- Send compilers articles to compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us or {ima | spdcc | world}!iecc!compilers. Meta-mail to compilers-request.