Message-Id: <199401111419.AA20220@radiomail.net>
From: Mark_Ganter@liz.com
Date: 11 Jan 94 09:05
To: vern@horse.ee.lbl.gov
Subject: Re[2]: Flex on an AS400

              I have no problem at all with being a contact for advice
          on porting Flex to EBCDIC.  The code was put on an AS400, so
          filing the message under /MISC/AS400 is more appropriate.
          The port was an interesting, very educational experience.
          Thanks again.


                                           Mark

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 12:33:48 -0400
To: "Michael W. Duffy" <mduffy@netcom.com>, Mark_Ganter@liz.com,
        vern@ee.lbl.gov (Vern Paxson), slayten@cas.org
From: slayten@cas.org (Steve Layten)
Subject: RE: Porting LEX scanner on EBCDIC machine
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I came in late on this discussion - I don't follow comp.compilers very
closely these days because my job has shifted somewhat.

I ported (quite some time ago) flex 2.3.6 to an IBM 3090 under MVS, using
the SAS C compiler. The approach I used was, as Vern suggested, was to
translate the tables to reflect EBCDIC-based indices. I haven't even
downloaded flex 2.4 yet, so I don't know what's in the current distribution.
My patches were in the flex 2.3 distribution for a while in the MISC
directory. If you want any more info feel free to drop me a line - I still
have (somewhere) the patches that I created from version 2.3.6.

Steve Layten
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