[Flex-help] C++ Flex Scanner

[Paulo J. M. <po...@so...>]

Hi all,

I'm starting a project and by looking to the generated header I find:
 /* The c++ scanner is a mess. The FlexLexer.h header file relies on the
     * following macro. This is required in order to pass the
c++-multiple-scanners
     * test in the regression suite. We get reports that it breaks inheritance.
     * We will address this in a future release of flex, or omit the C++ scanner
     * altogether.
     */

This make me wonder if I should use C scanner and provide a wrapper of
my own for the scanner. More over, is there any evidence of better
performance of the C scanner, when compared to the C++ one?

Regards,

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Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk
http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm
PhD Student @ ECS
University of Southampton, UK