Re: flex for windows

Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>
Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:03:02 -0500 (EST)

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From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.lang.c
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:03:02 -0500 (EST)
Organization: RadixNet Internet Services
References: 07-12-040 07-12-043 07-12-047 07-12-053
Keywords: lex, Windows
Posted-Date: 06 Jan 2008 18:03:02 EST

In comp.compilers Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> wrote:


> I don't think that a tool like flex really depends on special POSIX
> features, apart from the file handling. More problems will result from


...a little more than that (2.5.4a only relies on file handling and is
very portable), the new (since 2002) version spawns a copy of m4 to
process some macros.


(coincidentally, I was looking at the .33 this morning, to see if it
addressed locales - 2.5.4a's rather limited) and found that aspect was not
improved in the newer version as well (lots of additional ifdef's, but
no new solutions). Perhaps someone will get interested in making flex's
parsing know about locales...


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Thomas E. Dickey
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