(f)lex as a second phase

    I'm trying to use flex in the middle of a three step compiling
process:


    - a literate tool generates flex source
    - flex generates C source
    - finally egcs


The problem is that both the literate tool and flex are able to insert
#line directives, but flex is unable to read them -- so the
errors/warnings generated by egcs point to the intermediate file (the
input to flex). (Also, if i enable the insertion of #lines in the
literate tool, things get a bit hairy when flex tries to recognize
them as rules.)


Am i the only one with this problem? Do you happen to know any
solution? Will flex in the future support #lines in it's input ?


    TIA


    Andras Erdei
    ccg@freemail.c3.hu
[Flex doesn't support #line. You have the source, if it's really important,
write the code to handle them and send it along to Vern for integration in
a future version. -John]

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