Thread: Need a little help with simple compiler

Hi guys,

I'm having a little trouble getting some of my coursework working, basically I'm programming a C compiler (written in C). It only has to compile a very basic program so it's pretty simple.

Basically I'm a little confused about this line of code:

lex_init();

there's no function that shares this name in the program, and it still compile's. Does the _init do something interesting, or is lex_init() a pre-made function?

and also:

exit(NOERR);

This part doesn't work at all, any idea's on what the 'NOERR' is meant to be? (It's just copied from some lecture notes)

Thanks for any help you can give me,

Pete C

Thanks for the reply, and the link. The whole thing makes a bit more sense now ^^