Re: [Flex-devel] yytext and similar in -P scanners

[Petr M. <pma...@re...>]

Will Estes wrote:
> Thanks for the patch. We'll evaluate it for inclusion in the cvs tree.
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> As a point of clarification, though, there is no such thing as "GNU
> flex", nor has there ever been. The flex program has never been a part
> of the GNU project, although they did provide some hosting resources fo=
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> a long time, back in the day.

Well, I'm glad to know, so that I don't make such mistake in future.
However I didn't relate flex and GNU in any way in my mail.

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> It's just "flex".
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> Thanks,

Thanks,
PM

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> On Friday, 30 March 2007,15:10 +0200, Petr Machata wrote:
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>> Hi list,
>>
>> the editor `vile' (aka "vi like emacs") currently fails to build with
>> new flex, i.e. flex post 2.5.4a.  The problem is that in scanners
>> generated with -P, symbols yytext, yyleng, yylineno and others are not=

>> available.  Documentation states that they should be:
>>
>>> Within your scanner itself, you can still refer to the global
>>> variables and functions using either version of their name; but
>>> externally, they have the modified name.
>> I'm sending the patch that should fix this problem.  It does the same
>> thing old flex does, namely it introduces #defines for yy symbols.
>>
>> Comments welcome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> PM