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Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released
From: |
W. L. Estes |
Subject: |
Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Nov 2002 17:00:18 -0500 |
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On Monday, 25 November 2002,16:33 -0500, Bruce Lilly wrote:
> >K&R compatibility is a non-interest.
>
> Could you please clarify what that means. Are patches to
> address compiling flex-generated .c files on K&R compilers
> welcome or unwelcome? What about patches for building flex
> itself on K&R systems?
Probably a case-by-case basis. The simpler the patch the more likely
it will be accepted.
> > POSIX is where most of the flex development
> >happens. I personally think that expecting POSIX compliance is a
> >reasonable expectation.
>
> I don't disagree. But that's not really relevant to the
> intN_t issue. Unless recently changed, POSIX is silent
> regarding those types, which are ANSI C99 issues. But
> beware POSIX compliance; there's a flex issue where the
> default precedence for evaluation of some regexps differs
> from what POSIX requires...
There's an option for that one. --posix.
--Will
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, (continued)
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, W. L. Estes, 2002/11/23
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, Bruce Lilly, 2002/11/23
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, John Millaway, 2002/11/23
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, Bruce Lilly, 2002/11/23
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, John Millaway, 2002/11/23
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, Bruce Lilly, 2002/11/25
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, W. L. Estes, 2002/11/25
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, Bruce Lilly, 2002/11/25
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, W. L. Estes, 2002/11/25
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, Bruce Lilly, 2002/11/25
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released,
W. L. Estes <=
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, John Millaway, 2002/11/25
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, W. L. Estes, 2002/11/25
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, Bruce Lilly, 2002/11/25
- C99 integer types, John Millaway, 2002/11/25
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, W. L. Estes, 2002/11/25
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, Bruce Lilly, 2002/11/25
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, W. L. Estes, 2002/11/25
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, Bruce Lilly, 2002/11/25
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, W. L. Estes, 2002/11/25
- Re: flex beta 2.5.23 released, Bruce Lilly, 2002/11/25