Re: subject: Working Ronald Mak code, anyone?

thutt@clark.net (Taylor Hutt)
Tue, 5 Apr 1994 11:38:31 GMT

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From: thutt@clark.net (Taylor Hutt)
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Organization: Oberon Liberation Organization, MD USA
References: 94-04-017
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 11:38:31 GMT

Gary Gex <gexg@romeo.ecs.csus.edu> wrote:
>Regarding the code in Ronald Mak's book "Writing Compilers &
>Interpreters." ...
>
>I am seeking information to ease the translation of the code from the
>non-compiling mass of bytes it is to ANSI C (acceptable by gcc 2.5.8 or
>so, under various UNIX variants), so I can use it in a project.


My piece of help is to tell you that it is NOT worthwhile to get the Mak
code to compile -- the output of the Mak Compiler has no hope of working
without major changes. Trace thru a few statements and you will see that
the generated assembly is just plain wrong in many cases.


Get your money back for the disk, if you can. :-)


Taylor Hutt
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