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From: jhd@key.COM (John Danielson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: CFRONT 1.2 problems
Message-ID: <2703@key.COM>
Date: 19 Jun 91 17:31:19 GMT
Organization: Key Computer Labs, Fremont, CA
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    I am working on porting the SDB debugger supplied with the SVR4 SPARC
reference port from AT&T.  This SDB has been written in C++, and bundled
with the SDB source is V1.2 of CFRONT.  (BTW.  I am porting SDB to run
on a Silicon Graphics IRIS 4D, where is will run as a remote debugger to
a SPARC platform).

    When running SDB source through CFRONT I keep having the following type
of error being reported: 
+ ../../cfront/cfront +L +f../common/set_break.C
"../../inc/common/RegAccess.h", line 19: error: hexadecimal constant too large a
fter \x
sorry, cannot recover from previous error

    Now when I look at the file that it complains about, there are no 
hexadecimal constants (the syntax of the line that the above error is generated
on is "long fpbase;").  

    If I remake the file, CFRONT will successfully process the file, only
to die at on some other file later on in the make.

    Has anyone else experienced a similar problem, and if so, any pointers
on how to fix it.

								Thanks,
								John