On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

*>> you really wrote it from scratch without using
*>> bison/yacc/flex/anything - this must have taken a lot of work).
*>
*>I am not very fond of those toolkits, mainly because the error messages
*>are often very bad. And for the very simple grammar of Jal the amount of
*>work in the lex/parse part is small. There real work is in the reduction
*>of HLL constructs to simpler constructs, the register allocation and
*>(still to de finished!) intelligent handling of code page settings.

Just to mention that the *default* error messages in those parser
generators are bad. You can customize them forver and it is relatively
easy once you enter the mindset of whoever wrote the runtime library code.
Imho.

*>> I have a small question: Where are the include files that go
*>> with jal ?
*>
*>I guess you got the Jal compiler source from Source Forge? That is still
*>'under construction'. I have a download at my Jal page

No I got jal.c (just that) from your jal page you linked on the piclist.
There was no other link on that page ? Thanks for the pointers and the
quick response.

*>http://www.voti.nl/jal that includes the libraries. There is also a lot
*>of work from others at the Jallist webpage (files section), and do check
*>Vasile's and Stef's pages.

Peter

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