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From: jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)
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Subject: Re: status of TeX (for randy hyde)
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Date: 16 May 91 01:21:14 GMT
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rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:

>Nothing ironic about it.  I knew about these ports.  They don't work too
>well because of memory allocation problems on the GS (my understanding is
>that the BISON program only handles small grammars).  As an experience
>in porting it was probably fun, sorta like porting MINIX would be.  But as
>a real product, I feel it falls short.  For now I just run FLEX and BISON
>on my PC and port the emitted C code to the GS (which is probably a faster
>approach anyway).

   I'm not so sure about the limits of Bison. I only have 1.75 meg, and I
was able to emit and compile an ANSI C grammar I pulled off the net.  It
was hardly what you'd call a small grammar.

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