Re: Bison lexer

[Frank Heckenbach]

Hans Åberg wrote:

> > I haven't used gcc-8 yet, but how is this relevant? If anything, I
> > expect newer gcc versions to produce more warnings (usually useful)
> > which flex might also suffer from.
> 
> Maybe the Flex lexers errors is due to using C89 to compile it or something.

No, the warnings seemed legit.

> > Interesting, thanks. Fortunately, my REs are not so complex, so the
> > bug you reported won't affect me and lexing speed is not so
> > important for me, so (at least for now) I can just use the library
> > as is. But if I ever need something more sophisticated, I'll keep
> > this in mind.
> 
> If that is what you are using, note that it is recursive, so the function 
> stack might overflow. But perhaps the rewrite it someday.

I don't think my lexing REs should cause much recursion. No nested
repetitions or such.

Regards,
Frank