Re: Lex surrogates

tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
10 Feb 89 20:11:58 GMT

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From: tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Summary: GNU compilers don't use FLEX, but it's part of the GNU distribution
Date: 10 Feb 89 20:11:58 GMT
References: <3290@ima.ima.isc.com>

In article <3290@ima.ima.isc.com> "Douglas C. Schmidt" <schmidt@ORION.CF.UCI.EDU> writes:
|[Gnu C compilers use a hand coded lexer.]
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|Doug Schmidt
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|PS: They do use an LALR BISON (YACC) grammar, however.


Doug is a 100% here, but he doesn't know the full scoop.


GNU is distributing FLEX on it's tapes, and plans to include it as
part of GNU, becasue it's the fastest freely re-distributable scanner
that is coded well and cleanly, that we knew of.


Lexers do have use outside of compilers ... ;-}


enjoy -len
[From tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)]
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