Using Yacc/Lex (Bison/Flex) in Lirc?

[Sverker W. <sve...@sh...>]

Hello,

I'd like to rewrite the lircd parser/lexer in Bison/Flex. This would
make it much easier to understand (and change if need be) than the
current commingled parser/lexer used. Is there any reason not to?

I searched the list archive, and found a suggestion from 2001
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=20010306213826.A15307%40hell.lnx.es> (complete with stale links to code ;), but little seems to have happened since then.

I would expect to write for reasonably recent Bison/Flex versions (no
problem to install an older version, as long as I can find it in the
archives ;), but the only extension I really expect to need is the
multiple-parser-support (the '-p PREFIX' flag); and that might be doable
with some semi-ugly linker trickery instead, if I'm restricted to POSIX
Yacc/Lex. Everything else is creature comforts.

The generated .c/.h files would be included in the released tarball, so
that Lirc can still be built without these tools --- I believe that
Automake agrees with me on this point.

So, would this be worth my while?

/Sverker