Re: [Flex-help] EOF handling in flex canners is mysterious to me

[Eric S. R. <es...@th...>]

John P. Hartmann <jph...@gm...>:
> You should test for EOF only if fread returns 0;  If res is positive, 
> you should go with that.  Next time you read, you'll see EOF.

As I noted privately before I subscribed successfully:  You are correct, 
but this glitch is irrelevant to the actual problem, which is that the lexer
doesn't seem to be detecting EOF properly no matter when O return it.

Accordingly, the misbehavior did not change when I fixed this glitch.
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