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From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Manx 3.6a Bugs
Message-ID: <63@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 89 15:38:48 GMT
References: <8903052320.AA03483@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA
Lines: 49

In article <8903052320.AA03483@jade.berkeley.edu> GIGUERE@WATCSG.BITNET (Eric Giguere) writes:
->
->So here I am, running a simple grammar through Bison and then compiling
->the output file.... but there's a little problem with #define:
->
->    #ifndef __STDC__
->    #define const
->    #endif
->
->The code is perfectly valid C... but Manx doesn't let you define keywords
->as macros (const is a keyword in 3.6a even though it's not implemented).
->After getting the error message I looked in the manual and yep, that's
->what it says.  Arrgh!  Who was the idiot who put this into the compiler?
->Deleting the above lines doesn't solve anything because 'const' leads
->to problems later on.  I hope this is fixed in 4.0 --- a warning message
->I can see, but an error message no way!
->
->Well, enough of a tirade.  It's easy enough to use a text editor to
->delete all references to 'const', but I'm going to modify the Bison
->source to fix this permanently.  Maybe what we need is
->
->    #ifdef __STDC__
->    #define CONST const
->    #else
->    #define CONST
->    #endif
->
->which is ugly but would preserve 'const' for those compilers that
->support it.
->
->Speaking of bugs, 3.6a seems to have problems with #line directives
->when compiling with the '-n' (debugger) flag -- the assembler croaks.
->
->I await 4.0 anxiously....

For your info, I reported both of the above problems to Manx over one year ago.

->Eric Giguere
->Computer Systems Group, University of Waterloo
->
->BITNET: GIGUERE@WATCSG         Other: giguere@watcsg.UWaterloo.CA
->UUNET : watcsg!giguere@uunet.UU.NET


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