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From: Greg.Trotter@p3.f30.n147.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Greg Trotter)
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Subject: Flex compilation with TC
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Date: 7 Jun 89 04:55:17 GMT
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 In Message <394@tuewsd.UUCP>, wsinpp@tuewsd.UUCP (Peter Peters) writes:

 > I tried to compile Flex (the lex replacement) on an IBM-PC
 > using Turbo-C 1.0. The compilation works just fine (a few
 > warnings) but the resultant executable seems to be corrupt.
 > Execution of flex produces an empty lex-yy.tab (lex.yy.tab)
 > file and simply stops the machine. Using ^C gives the message
 > that something is wrong with memory allocation and that
 > command.com cannot be loaded, so the machine is dead.
 > Anyone out there who can enlighten me ?

I had memory allocation problems using TC 1.0. When I upgraded to 2.0, I never had the problem again. I'd call Borland for an upgrade (it's sonething like $100 with Turbo Assembler and Turbo Debugger).

                                       - greg




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