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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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