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To: DARREND@novell.com (Darren Davis)
Cc: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Flex - Reply 
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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 10:32:29 PST
From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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In message <s15b98c6.058@fromGW>,   you write:
>An interesting note about the Flex that comes with FreeBSD.  I have been
>attempting to get cscope compiled for FreeBSD (don't ask, I can't give
>it out.)  It processed the lex grammer just fine, and generated the c file.
> The resulting C file fails horribly with GCC.  I haven't done much further
>investigation other than this.  Another interesting note is that if I use
>lex on UnixWare, the resulting C file compiles just fine with GCC (though
>I don't have the necessary matching library for lex on FreeBSD.  MORE WORK)
>
>Darren R. Davis
>Senior Software Engineer
>Novell,  Inc.
>
>

Which flex is it?  Did you try flex -l?

If you can get a newer flex, try it...

marty