1 Feb
2002
1 Feb
'02
11:38 p.m.
At 08:20 PM 1/02/2002 -0800, Derek Peschel wrote:
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:32:17PM -0800, Zane H. Healy
wrote:
one of
I guess I'm surprised that the author isn't dead or at least remembers what
FAIL was. It's been nearly 25 years since I last used it.
And if
anyone has a grammar for FAIL, that would be nice too.
Have you checked the DECUS tapes? I seem to recal SAIL/FAIL being on them.
I already have the source, executable, and manual for FAIL. I even sent
e-mail to the author. He said it's been too long since he worked on
the code. :) Someone might be able to derive a grammar from the specs
and the code, but I didn't really expect that anyone already did. It was just an offhand remark. I wanted to create a
syntax file for Vim.
I would be much happier about finding a basic-block analyzer.
I don't recall too many block analysis programs that existed when FAIL was
a current product. I seem to recall LINK could do some interesting
dependency graphs and there might have been one or two "flow chart"
generators for some of the higher level languages, but I don't remember one
for MACRO-10 so I guess unless Stanford did something for FAIL you might be
out of luck.
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