Re: Bug#196800: flex mustn't assume stdint.h is available onallplatforms
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 13:31:01 +0200, Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> said:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:50:55PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> In any case, I see this division of flex-old and flex as the best
>> solution to the issue at hand. The new flex has exciting new
>> features, but breaks with POSIX, and is not backwards compatible.
>> It's scanners ought to work on most modern OS's.
> How about adding a big warning in the long description of flex then,
> like: "Warning, if you want to develop software on 'non-conforming'
> platforms, you might want to consider using the flex-old package
> instead"?
That is a given for any program that generates C code, and
always has been: No representations can be made about C code when
compiled on a non-conrming platform, the behavious is always
undefined.
manoj
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