Compiling the Lojban parser

["Robert J. Chassell" <bob@GRACKLE.STOCKBRIDGE.MA.US>]

John Cowan noted that:

    ... <malloc.h> which does not exist on ANSI C systems.  The correct
    ANSI C equivalent is <stdlib.h>. ...

Weirdly enough, I cannot include <stdlib.h> either.  I just
comment out the

     # include <malloc.h>

line in lojban.h.  It looks like this:

    # include <string.h>
    /* # include <malloc.h> */
    # include <ctype.h>

Then the following command:

    gcc -g -traditional -o parser *.c

compiles the parser successfully.  No other changes are required.

I am using the GNU C Compiler version 2.3.3.  Although I installed
this version of GCC in a plain vanilla manner, various people have
twiddled with my system so I don't know what is standard and what is
specific to my machine.  You may have experiment to see what works
with your system.


The parser works fine and is both fun and educational.

For example, `parser -ft' converts the following Lojban:

    .i ko catlu    le kevna be le bitmu be'o    poi ke'a trixe le pixra
          Look at the cavity in   the wall    which is behind the picture.

into this:

    (i {ko <catlu [(le {<kevna [be (le bitmu KU) be'o]>
     <poi [ke'a (trixe {<le pixra KU> VAU})] KU'O>} KU) VAU]>})



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