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Subject: Re: yylineno ?
To: markd@Grizzly.COM (Mark Diekhans)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 09:31:29 +0200 (MESZ)
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In-Reply-To: <199609091856.LAA01130@osprey.grizzly.com> from "Mark Diekhans" at Sep 9, 96 11:56:30 am
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E-mail message from Mark Diekhans contained:
> 
> >Im mucking with older software to try and get it running, and its using
> >yylineno in lex, however flex doesnt support this variable(?).  Anyone have any
> >ideas on what to replace it with?
> 
> adding 
> 
>    %option yylineno
> 
> will enable yylineno compatiblity (at least in version 2.5.3).

and lex -l will turn on this compatibility option even on flex which is
delivered with FreeBSD.  RTFM, please.

/Marino
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