Building a Re-entrant Interpreter

Hi,


I was hoping to use lex and yacc to implement a re-entrant lexer and
parser. I soon realized that lex and yacc don't produce re-entrant
code.


Later, I discovered that GNU bison produces a re-entrant parser.
However, I can't find a version of lex that is also re-entrant. Does
anyone know of a re-entrant lexical analyzer? As far as I can tell,
flex does not provide this functionality.


Are there any non-commercial compiler-development programs that I can
use to build a re-entrant parser, or am I stuck using C or C++ to
develop everything from scratch?


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Mark Dancho
Dancho@asu.edu
[This question comes up from time to time; it's not all that hard to mutate
the flex code to make it reentrant. There's a C++ option in the current flex
that creates lexer classes, which may do what you want. -John]


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