Porting Notes:

The following items are known to be operating systems and compiler
dependent and may need to be modified to work on your system.

External file management: 

The file file_managerB.a contain the code to open the files for the
main scanner, IO and DFA packages.  You may need to modify this file
to match the conventions for ada source file names on your system.

Command Line Processing: 

The file command_lineB.a contains code which loads the argument vector
ARGV and argument count argc with the appropriate information.  ARGV
should be set to the total number of arguments to the program plus one
for the name of the program.  ARGV(0) should contain the program name
if available, if not it may contain any string.  The elements
ARGV(1..argc-1) should contain the arguments given to the program.  If
your systems does not allow differentiation of upper and lower case
on the command line you may have to modify this module to use a
different strategy.

Error Output:

Aflex uses the FILE_TYPE variable STANDARD_ERROR as the destination
for all error output.  This is a predefined file on the Verdix
compiler.  On other compilers this variable should be defined in the
file_managerS.a file, and the procedure initialize_files package
should be modified to create standard_error and point it at an
appropriate place for error messages to go.  This SHOULD NOT be the
default output because aflex redirects this to the generated file.
Thus all error messages will disappear into the generated Ada file.

Templates:

This version of aflex has the scanner skeleton and IO/DFA templates
internalized.  This eliminates the need to keep copies of files containing
these in a know location.  However this significantly increases the size
of the executable.  On a machine with no virtual memory and limited
physical memory it may be desirable to use external templates.  This
can easily be done by deleting the internal templates and use the
code from skeleton_manager that deals with external skeletons.