Re: Update to flex 2.5.33

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On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 19:26 +0200, Petr Machata wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 04:15 +0000, Bojan Smojver wrote:
> > Bojan Smojver <bojan <at> rexursive.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Would there be interest in having a flex-reentrant (based on 2.5.33) package in
> > > Extras
> > 
> > Something like this:
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.rexursive.com/pub/flex/flex-reentrant.spec
> 
> Ok.  Having flex 2.5.3x in fedora was my original goal when I became
> maintainer of flex.  However old version is heavy with patches, and new
> version went more or less it's own way.  So I'd rather do it only after
> certain confidence grows.
> 
> So... what about creating flex-reentrant,
Naming it flex-reentrant is a mis-nomer.

Reentrancy in flex code is a feature of a scanner's sources, not a
feature of the scanner-generator (flex). It had been possible to write
reentrant scanners even with old flex for many years.

Ralf


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