Re: [Flex-help] flex and bison locations

[Aaron S. <aa...@se...>]

We fully support yylloc, but it is disabled by default, just as in bison.

http://flex.sourceforge.net/manual/Bison-Bridge.html

Aaron


On Thu, Jan 10, 2008, Claudio Saavedra <csa...@al...> said:

> Hi,
> 
> While trying to test bison's locations, I noticed that flex doesn't
> automatically set yylloc, Bison's variable to store location of the
> lookahead token. But instead, the user must do it himself.
> 
> Moreover, it came to my attention that every time that a flex generated
> scanner matches a token, there is no information about the position of
> it. A user willing to use locations must keep track of the currently
> scanned position manually.
> 
> Are there any reasons not to alleviate the user's duty by doing these
> tasks automatically? Am I missing something? Is it planned to develop,
> at least partially, these features at some point?
> 
> Claudio
> 
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