Ralf Corsepius wrote: > 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 Yes. > reentrant scanners even with old flex for many years. Possibly. The name refers to -R switch in 2.5.3x, which promises to build reentrant lexer. With this switch, built lexers store all variables in a structure passed via parameter, using no global variables. Afaik, flex was doing similar thing in c++ mode for a long time now. Anyway, we can as well call is flex-new. > > Ralf PM -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
