Re: Bug#196800: flex mustn't assume stdint.h is available on allplatforms
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:47:54 +0100, Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> said:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:45:29PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> You need to read up on your standards. The language called C is
>> defined by only one authoritative standard.
> For some arbitrary definition of "authoritative".
If you are talking about the computer language called C, this
is far from arbitrary.
> For the record, I think it's a silly one. When reality and the map
> differ, it's generally a good idea to trust reality.
Well, you can modify and follow your map wherever the heck you
want to go. Flex scanners shall depend on standard conforming
platforms; use flex-old for obsolescent platforms.
manoj
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