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From: perera@gis.lislab.uga.edu (Niranjan Perera)
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Hi:

I am trying to interface a program to the postgres backend. I am using
flex, bison, libpq, and gcc 2.5.8.

PROBLEM:
I get a core dump :( when I try to yyparse(). The problem reported by
gdb is that it occurs in malloc() ( inside the lex generated code ).

I can get the program to run using lex, yacc, and cc ( K&R C ), but would
prefer to use ANSI C.

QUESTION:
Has anybody been able to use flex, bison, and gcc 2.5.8 to compile against
the backend ? If so, How does one get around the malloc() problem ? I even
tried using palloc().

Any suggestions or hints ?

-- Niranjan

p.s The version of postgres is 4.1, and it is a precompiled sparc binary.