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From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: code differences between manx and lattice
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Date: 21 Mar 88 16:23:28 GMT
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Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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Keywords: a lexicl analyser to make them "interchangable"

ugmiker@sunybcs.UUCP (Michael Reilly) wrote:
>should be able to write a simple (simple???) lexical analyser to
>convert manx code to lattice code

And back again, hopefully.  Yes, this is surely needed.  The
differences are not so great that it can't be automated.  The big
things are Lattice function prototyping and the differences in the
libraries (Lattice has a lot of ANSI calls, Manx has a lot of UNIX
calls), but you could cons up some routines of your own or maybe
convert vendor X's library routine to a couple of Y's routines
or something.

Also watch out for assumptions about how big an 'int' is ... default
Lattice is 32 bits, default Manx is 16 bits.

..Bob
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