I'm not at all impressed with the recent series of flex releases, since it
started using m4 internally and passing user code through m4.
(cf. bison, which unlike
flex pays proper attention to assuring that arbitrary valid parsers are
not mangled by m4).
Fully agreed. The recent releases
Vaclav Haisman wrote:
Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
[...]
openSUSE 10.2 now comes with flex 2.5.33, but FreeBSD, for example, still
is at flex 2.5.4. Just some additional data pointes...
FreeBSD has version 2.5.33 as textproc/flex port.
But that will not replace the system flex, so it will
On Mon, 21 Jan 2007, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
That doesn't sound right. It see flex being run every time I create a
new object directory, even though I don't modify the flex input files.
We ship gengtype-lex.c with releases, so people building the compiler
from releases shouldn't have to
Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
[...]
openSUSE 10.2 now comes with flex 2.5.33, but FreeBSD, for example, still
is at flex 2.5.4. Just some additional data pointes...
FreeBSD has version 2.5.33 as textproc/flex port.
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Wiadomość napisana w dniu 2007-01-22, o godz06:49, przez Ben Elliston:
I think it's worth raising the minimum required version from 2.5.4 to
2.5.31. The latter version was released in March, 2003, so it is
hardly
bleeding edge.
Your definition of bleeding edge doesn't fit mine:
$ flex
Ian == Ian Lance Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben I think it's worth raising the minimum required version from 2.5.4 to
Ben 2.5.31.
Ian I want to point out that Fedora Core 5 appears to still ship flex
Ian 2.5.4. At least, that is what flex --version reports.
When this came up on irc, I
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Ben Elliston wrote:
I submitted a patch to gengtype-lex.l last week to gcc-patches. The
patch uses some flex %option directives. Ian Taylor asked me to check
if the patch passed through flex 2.5.4, which is the current minimum
required version. It didn't work.
Thanks all for the discussion. I think we can conclude that it's not
safe to require a newer version of Flex. I withdraw my patch.
Cheers, Ben
On Jan 21, 2007, at 11:48 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
That doesn't sound right. It see flex being run every time I create a
new object directory, even though I don't modify the flex input files.
Sounds like a bug. I did a quick check with a contrib/gcc_update --
touch and a c,treelang build
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 15:39 -0800, Mike Stump wrote:
On Jan 21, 2007, at 11:48 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
That doesn't sound right. It see flex being run every time I create a
new object directory, even though I don't modify the flex input files.
Sounds like a bug. I did a quick check
I submitted a patch to gengtype-lex.l last week to gcc-patches. The
patch uses some flex %option directives. Ian Taylor asked me to check
if the patch passed through flex 2.5.4, which is the current minimum
required version. It didn't work.
Through some experimentation, I learned that the
Ben Elliston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think it's worth raising the minimum required version from 2.5.4 to
2.5.31.
I want to point out that Fedora Core 5 appears to still ship flex
2.5.4. At least, that is what flex --version reports. (I didn't
bother to check this before.) I think we
On 21 Jan 2007 22:13:06 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ben Elliston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think it's worth raising the minimum required version from 2.5.4 to
2.5.31.
I want to point out that Fedora Core 5 appears to still ship flex
2.5.4. At least, that is what flex
I think it's worth raising the minimum required version from 2.5.4 to
2.5.31.
I want to point out that Fedora Core 5 appears to still ship flex
2.5.4. At least, that is what flex --version reports. (I didn't
bother to check this before.) I think we need a very strong reason to
Steven Bosscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 21 Jan 2007 22:13:06 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ben Elliston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think it's worth raising the minimum required version from 2.5.4 to
2.5.31.
I want to point out that Fedora Core 5 appears to
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