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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:20:47 -0700
From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Randall Hyde <randyhyde@earthlink.net>
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On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:40:45PM -0700, Randall Hyde wrote:
> > >
> >
> > Without seeing the code or the actual error message, I'm
> > guessing the answer is 42.  Perhaps, some detail might
> > be appropriate.
> 
> I seriously doubt seeing the code  will do much good.
> Here's the offending line:
> 
>   YY_INPUT( (&yy_current_buffer->yy_ch_buf[number_to_move]),
>    yy_n_chars, num_to_read );

Hopefully, people who use your product give better bug
reports.   I don't know whether I should laugh or cry.

> gcc -DfreeBSD -c -o lex.yy.o lex.yy.c
> 
> and it stops with "syntax error before numeric constant".

Does your code include all the required header files?
This looks like a namespace pollution problem.

-- 
Steve