On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:23:16AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I'm trying to determine whether flex++ produces standards-compliant C++. It > seems that it very nearly does, except that /usr/include/FlexLexer.h refers > to std::istream and std::ostream without the std:: prefix. This is as of > 2.5.4a-30 (current unstable), however; 2.5.4a-29 was still using > iostream.h. I downloaded 2.5.4a from ftp.gnu.org and its FlexLexer.h is > still using iostream.h. > > Does this mean that only Debian's (unstable) version of flex++ is properly > C++ compliant (and still not quite)? Will the changes get back into the > primary branch? The Debian maintainer has probably already sent the patches upstream to GNU; it probably has a slow release cycle though, which is why it hasn't shown up yet. > My motivation here is to be able to document which version of flex++ some > software requires. Right now I can use any version, but I have my own > flex.skl and FlexLexer.h which are heavily modified. I'd rather be able to > document a reliance on an authoritative version. If you've managed to get full ISO C++ compliance working, then send your patch to both the Debian maintainer and GNU, they will love you for it :) -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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