Re: bison scan-code and flex-3.5.36

[Tys Lefering]

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Joel E. Denny wrote:
>> Maybe Bison can do something with flex --header-file
>> output option and include it in flex-sacnner.h to get
>> a correct prototype for the get_leng.
> I'm sure we can figure something out, but...

>> revision 2.213 by wlestes, Thu May 15 21:11:57 2008 UTC
> That's an old change, and there doesn't seem to have been much flex
> development since then.  Have you seen any evidence there might be a
> release soon?
No reason to assume there will be a new FLEX version soon
and not much developments in the FLEX src.

>> extern int yyleng;  extern yy_size_t yyleng;
> POSIX says yyleng is an int, so I wonder if these changes are stable
> enough to worry about yet.
It is about possible 32/64 bits issues in parser code.
like YYLTYPE 'int' line number instead of uint64_t
and files to parse are getting (much) bigger nowadays
then it may happen to become troublesome.
That is the reason to ask about it now.

> I think it's supposed to be 1961609:
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1961609&group_id=97492&atid=618177
Thanks for finding it.