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From: bazyar@chip (Jawaid Bazyar)
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Subject: Re: Orca/c bug followup
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Date: 4 Feb 91 21:43:51 GMT
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In article <11676@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@koufax.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
>>> He is also only one of two people in the compiler field now continuing
>>> faith in the GS  (Mike Westerfield).
>
>Amen.
>Regardless of how *slow* his software is, I will continue to support Byteworks
>for this reason alone until I am willing to write this code myself.  Of course,
>if we had Flex & BISON working 100% on the GS, I'd probably be willing
>to tackle
>the job.

  Well, I guess I've just been waiting longer than you, because I've
started doing some research on a C compiler. (yes, I know, I try to do
everything).
  We've (Rob Knauerhase and I) had good luck so far with some C preprocessor
source we found, and I'm starting work on a Lexer.  I've already got a
working grammar for C, so it's just a matter of plugging the pieces together
and filling in the blank spots.  Which is, of course, the most difficult
part (developing the code generators, etc).
  If anyone would be interested in helping! just drop me a note. I'm 
looking for someone who knows C in and out, who knows '816 assembly
in and out, and who has experience with Orca's code generation models
(I don't want to redo that stuff from scratch, and it should also be
compatible with Orca code).

  We'll let you know how it goes- I ran out of memory before I could
see if cpp would compile, but there was only one error I saw, so that
bodes well.

--
Jawaid Bazyar               | "I'm sure K&R have never heard of Mike." 
Senior/Computer Engineering |
bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu          | "That's okay. I'm sure Mike's never heard of K&R".
   Apple II Forever!        |  (discussion about Orca/C)