Flex compilation with TC

[Greg McGary]

In article <394 at tuewsd.UUCP> wsinpp at tuewsd.UUCP (Peter Peters) writes:
>I tried to compile Flex (the lex replacement) on an IBM-PC
>using Turbo-C 1.0. The compilation works just fine (a few
>warnings) but the resultant executable seems to be corrupt.
>Execution of flex produces an empty lex-yy.tab (lex.yy.tab)
>file and simply stops the machine. Using ^C gives the message
>that something is wrong with memory allocation and that
>command.com cannot be loaded, so the machine is dead.
>Anyone out there who can enlighten me ?
>If this is not the correct newsgroup for this kind of message
>I'm sorry..

If you compile flex with `-N' enabling stack-overflow detection, you
will discover that the stack is overflowing.  No matter how big you
make _stklen, this will persist.  The problem is that the time(3) library
function called from gettime() itself calls an internal function called
gettime(), so you get stuck in an infinite double-recursion.  The workaround
is to rename flex's gettime() to get_time() or some such.

Also, be sure to compile with the large-model...

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