Re: Bug#196800: flex mustn't assume stdint.h is available on allplatforms
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> SuSv3 aka POSIX was released one year ago.
>
> And changed nothing in the Lex definitions. As I said, we are
> dealing with decades old design.
Hmm you must've missed section 1.1 :)
The entire document is aligned with ISO/IEC 9899: 19999. There is no
requirement that lex generates code that is accepted by c89.
But of course this has no bearing on whether a particular implementation
chooses to be backwards compatible or not.
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