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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