Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:44:44 +0100 From: Ulf Lilleengen <ulf.lilleengen@gmail.com> To: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC]: flex/lex update Message-ID: <20090113094444.GC54243@nobby> In-Reply-To: <20090112200128.GA85280@freebsd.org> References: <20090112200128.GA85280@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:01:28PM +0100, Roman Divacky wrote: > hi > > I noticed there is an update to lex/flex. The version in our tree > is ancient and there seems to be some updates (http://flex.sourceforge.net/) > > Can someone comment on the state of lex in our tree? It's not considered > a contributed software (it resides in usr.bin) but it was taken from elsewhere. > > what is our position? is it preferable for me to work on updating it or > just fixing the one bug I ran into? I would like to see a new version of flex in base, as the current version doesn't support generating reentrant code, which is needed for the lexer used in csup for tokenizing rcs files. I solved this by just including the generated lexer, but would prefer if it could be generated from the source instead. I think philip@ started to work on this, so you should poke him regarding the work he's already done. -- Ulf Lilleengen
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