flex 2.4.3 now available for anonymous ftp

Release 2.4.3 of flex is now available for anonymous ftp to
ftp.ee.lbl.gov; retrieve flex-2.4.3.tar.Z or flex-2.4.3.tar.gz, or, if
you've already installed release 2.4.2, flex-2.4.3-2.4.2.diffs.Z. ".gz"
versions of these files will likely be showing up shortly on
prep.ai.mit.edu and associated GNU mirror sites.


I've appended a description of the main differences between 2.4.3 and
2.4.2, taken from the "NEWS" file.


Please report bugs to:
bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu


Vern


Vern Paxson vern@ee.lbl.gov
Information and Computing Sciences ucbvax!ee.lbl.gov!vern
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (510) 486-7504




Changes between release 2.4.3 (03Dec93) and release 2.4.2:


- Fixed bug causing fatal scanner messages to fail to print.


- Fixed things so FlexLexer.h can be included in other C++
sources. One side-effect of this change is that -+ and -CF
are now incompatible.


- libfl.a now supplies versions of the the <string.h>/<strings.h>
string routines needed by flex and the scanners it generates,
to enhance portability to some BSD systems.


- More robust solution to 2.4.2's flexfatal() bug fix.


- Added ranlib of installed libfl.a.


- Some lint tweaks.


- NOTE: problems have been encountered attempting to build flex
C++ scanners using g++ version 2.5.X. The problem is due to an
unfortunate heuristic in g++ 2.5.X that attempts to discern between
C and C++ headers. Because FlexLexer.h is installed (by default)
in /usr/local/include and not /usr/local/lib/g++-include, g++ 2.5.X
decides that it's a C header :-(. So if you have problems, install
the header in /usr/local/lib/g++-include instead.




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