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Re: PD Lex?

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From: Milan M Shah
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 1990 20:41
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Ok, that does it. First, thanks to the many replies suggesting I use flex,
available from wuarchive, ocf.berkeley, vulcan, and (I found this myself,
I am *so* proud) from terminator.

It seems to me that there are atleast 4 different versions of flex, all
purporting to be v 2.3, and none of them seem to work. Here are the
problems I have encountered:

a) flex236.zoo from vulcan - dies saying it can't find flex.ske.
b) flex236.zoo from ocf - works ok, but the resulting lexyy.c file won't 
     compile under MSC 6.0; it dies with an internal compiler error, and
     tells me to contact Microsoft Support. 
c) flex.zip from terminator - well documented, but also dies with internal
     compiler error.
d) flex received via private email - dies with internal compiler error, but
     is different from the above three because it doesn't support some of
     the command line options that the above three do. Not that it matters,
     my point is that it is a different thing.

So, can anyone point me to a working copy of flex? The last thing I want to
do is download it from prep.ai and create yet a fifth port...

Also, I have it from a knowledgeable source that the internal errors are
caused due to a severe bug in MSC 6.0's register allocation. He even 
suggested a fix, but I am not sure which flex his workaround was supposed to
fix!!!

Milan
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From: mmshah@fred-saberhagen.MIT.EDU (Milan M Shah)
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Subject: Re: PD Lex?
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