Re: Bug#196800: flex mustn't assume stdint.h is available on allplatforms
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 20:41:48 +0200, Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> said:
> What worry me more is incompatibilities with POSIX lex spec rather
> than ANSI C.
I can understand the unease. But consider this: POSIX is
already over a decade old; and it standardized practices that were
old at the time the standard was ratified. Some of the proscriptions
laid out in POSIX stood in the way of creating reentrant scanners, or
the ability to have multiple scanners in the same program (with
different defaults, perhaps). The authors of Flex have decided to
pursue functionality, rather then hold to strict adherence of POSIX.
manoj
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Chicken Little was right.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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