Re: Multibyte/Wide Character Sets and Lex.

pjbumbul@math.uwaterloo.ca (Peter Bumbulis)
13 Feb 1996 00:08:13 -0500

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From: pjbumbul@math.uwaterloo.ca (Peter Bumbulis)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 13 Feb 1996 00:08:13 -0500
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: 96-02-065 96-02-099
Keywords: lex, i18n

>"Orbach, Julian ACUS" <juliano@SYDPO4.AUS.unisys.com> writes:
>re2c does not handle 16-bit wide chars, but it is the only lexer I
>know that does not use arrays (but it uses big C switches statements,
>which may be a worse idea in your case, I dont know...).


re2c can translate switch statements into nested ifs (usually a
performance win.) Adapting re2c to handle 16-bit wide chars is
straightforward (but tedious.)


Peter
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