Re: Bison for a PC ?

"Elliot H. Mednick" <elliot@wellspring.com>
Thu, 2 Jul 1992 19:41:41 GMT

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From: "Elliot H. Mednick" <elliot@wellspring.com>
Organization: Wellspring Solutions
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1992 19:41:41 GMT
Keywords: yacc, GCC, MSDOS
References: 92-07-007

  > Has anyone ported GNU Bison to a PC running DOS ? I would be
  > particularly interested to hear from anyone with a version that
  > compiles under Borland/Turbo C.


[This would make a good FAQ.]
FTP to either OAK.Oakland.Edu (141.210.10.117), wuarchive.wustl.edu
(128.252.135.4), or src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.3.7)
(or another SIMTEL mirror), and get
/pub/msdos/txtutl/bison111.zip (or /mirrors/msdos/... on wuarchive).


Note that BISON uses alloca() which is NOT included in the Borland libs.
A (very) temporary patch is to substute malloc() in BISON.SIM. A (much)
better solution is to get .../msdos/turbo-c/allocaap.zip.


Regards,
-Elliot
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