Re: %option stdinit

[John W. Millaway]

> Info page states:
> `stdinit'
>      if unset (i.e., `%option nostdinit') initializes `yyin' and
>      `yyout' to nil `FILE' pointers, instead of `stdin' and `stdout'.
> 

You are correct. That paragraph is unclear. However, it has been clarified in
the current manual. Here is an excerpt from the manual currently distributed
with flex:

 stdinit
              if set (i.e., %option stdinit) initializes yyin and
              yyout to stdin and stdout, instead of  the  default
              of  nil.  Some existing lex programs depend on this
              behavior, even though it is not compliant with ANSI
              C,  which  does  not require stdin and stdout to be
              compile-time constant. In a reentrant scanner,
              however, this is not a problem since initialization
              is performed in `yylex_init' at runtime.


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