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Re: Bug#196800: flex mustn't assume stdint.h is available on allplatforms



On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:33:26 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org> said: 

> On Friday, Jun 13, 2003, at 17:53 US/Eastern, Manoj Srivastava
> wrote:
>>
>> Is trhere a reason for posting this inanity? For the C language,
>> there is one, and only one, authoritative standard.

> Not for a lex implementation. For example. SuS v2 applies as
> well. Flex choses not to comply with that standard.

	True enough. Flex broke with POSIX in order to facilitate new
 features. But the point here was a generated scanner including
 stdint.h; and the issue was standards conformance of the generated C
 file, not POSIX conformance of flex; there is no argument that flex
 itself no longer conforms to POSIX.

	manoj
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