According to Tom Dye:

Please excuse a newbie request for help. I'm interested in using a lexer prepared with flex in a GPC program. I gather from the documentation that this is possible, but I'm not enough of a C programmer to figure out how it might be done.

This is a special case of the question "How to use a function written in C from a GPC program?", correct? This is answered in the GPC FAQ:

8< ---- begin (* from the GPC FAQ *) -----------------------------------------

[15]How do I use <insert_your_function_here> from the C library?

GNU Pascal can use every function of your C library, but it may be up to you to write declaration of an external function, before you can use it. Consider the function `sleep'. `man(3) sleep' reveals:

--------------------------------------------------------- NAME sleep - Sleep for the specified number of seconds

SYNOPSIS #include <unistd.h>

unsigned int sleep(unsigned int seconds); ---------------------------------------------------------

This small demo program shows how to use `sleep' in a Pascal program:

--------------------------------------------------------- program SleepDemo;

type word = __unsigned__ integer;

function sleep(seconds: word): word; C;

var result : word;

begin result := sleep(10); end. ----------------------------------------------------------

8< ---- end (* from the GPC FAQ *) -------------------------------------------

Remark: Recent beta versions of GPC (available at ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~gnu-pascal/beta/) don't need `word = __unsigned__ integer' any more; they have `word' built in.

Hope this helps,

Peter

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