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Re: (f)lex & poisoned malloc / free in system.h
- To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Subject: Re: (f)lex & poisoned malloc / free in system.h
- From: Michael Meeks <michael at ximian dot com>
- Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 13:28:25 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Hi Kaveh,
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> This is new territory since there's no bundled gcc code using {f}lex
> as of today. For new frontends we'll have to establish something.
Ah, well - to be fair this was only for an example lexer for the
'toy' language that I just ported to gcc 3.1 [ probably riddling it with
trivial errors in the process ]
( http://primates.ximian.com/~michael/toy-3.1.1.tar.gz )
> I know e.g. that we require bison, and do not support yacc. So by
> analogy we should say flex is required and lex isn't supported. This
> has practical benefits in that we don't have to worry about receiving
> problem reports due to buggy proprietary lex implementations.
Yep.
> Assuming that is acceptable, does the following patch solve the
> problem for you?
Yes,
Thanks,
Michael.
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