[pclasses-devel] anyone know about portability of flex-generated files?

[stephan b. <st...@s1...>]

Yo!

Do any of you know how portable flex-generated lexer files are? If they 
are portable, i could pull the whole s11n::io set of Serializers by 
using their pre-generated lexers in this tree. (That'd be 7 data 
formats.) i know the files compile on at least 11 different Linux 
architectures, but they're all using gcc and flex themselves.

Or is there anyone willing to try to compile a flex-gen'd file if i 
generate one?

AFAIK generated lexers are very portable. We can't rely on client-side 
versions of 'flex', though, because many newer versions create output 
which no C compiler can compile. Even in the s11n tree, i ship 
pre-gen'd flexers in the dist tarball. i have no idea how non-Unix 
compatible they are, though.


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