From: Petr S. <pe...@sc...> - 2000-10-11 21:30:22
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Hi Hans, Thanks for you hardwork. Great stuff. Petr > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Petr Sorfa wrote: > > > > > Can you hang on your changes until post 15.0? As soon as I tag 15.0 you > > > > can put it in so that it will become part of 15.1 and we can start > > > > getting used to it. > > > No problems with that. > > Good. > > For your info: I just uploaded the current state of the scanner > modifications as a 'patch' to SourceForge. So it won't go into the main > source, for now, but if you want it, it's there for grabbing. > > It should be fairly useable, as is. If you try it out and notice > problems, feel free to mail me. > > Some notes: > > 1) two new header files lookup.h and scanner.h that contain exactly the > stuff exported by lookup.c and scanner.l, respectively. > > 2) One further change I had forgotten about until I proofread the diff: > I created a new global 'char tempstring[8192]' in main.c that is used > by command.c and display.c as a scratch buffer, instead of yytext. > I considered such usage of other module's supposed internal storage > bad manners. Of course, it's still not really nice, that way. The > relevant scanf()'s might better be converted to %*[] from the current > %[] format strings, so there would be no need for that scratch buffer, > any more... > > Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...) > Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain. -- -------------------------------------------------------- Petr Sorfa Software Engineer Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) 430 Mountain Ave. http://www.sco.com Murray Hill 07974 NJ, USA -------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: All my comments are my own and nobody else's ---------------------------------------------------------- |