Re: error: invalid character `' (ASCII 0) near line 164, column 2 [changeset]

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 4, 2010, at 2:04 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On  1-Jan-2010, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
> | On Jan 1, 2010, at 7:52 PM, Michael D Godfrey wrote:
> | 
> | > On 12/31/2009 01:40 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> | >> Using the attached changeset, I'm now able to build successfully using 
> both the flex from sourceforge and the one bundled with MacOS X.
> | >> 
> | >> If someone can give it a sanity check, I'll push it.
> | >> 
> | >> Ben
> | >>  
> | > It works on my Mac 10.6.  Thanks.
> | > 
> | > Michael
> | 
> | I'm worried there may be other instances where Apple is using "0" for 
> "EOF". However, I don't see that being a problem for committing this 
> changeset. So if no problem arises, I push it this weekend.
> 
> Please undo this changeset.
> 
> As you noted, there are other places where we check for EOF after
> calling yyinput and your patch only changes one check.  If checking
> for 0 or EOF is the right thing to do, then we should fix all the
> checks.
> 
> But I don't think it is correct for yyinput to return 0 for EOF and we
> should just avoid this version of flex.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jwe

Ok.

I may not get to this until the end of the day.

btw, is there an easy way to undo and then commit?

Ben