Re: %option stdinit

[W. L. Estes]

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

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--Will

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> Cc: Osamu Aoki <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> From: Manoj Srivastava <address@hidden>
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> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 09:17:01 -0600
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> Hi,
> 
>         [Please retain the CC to address@hidden  so
>         that the Debian bug tracking system has a record of your input]
> 
>       This problem has been reported by a Debian user. 
> 
> 
>  When flex is invoked with "%option stdinit", it should initializes
>  `yyin' and `yyout' to `stdin' and `stdout' according to info page. It
>  does not seem to work so. I can always use flex with default "nostdinit"
>  and initialize yyin and yyout in the statements in main().  It will be
>  nice to have this feature working.
> 
>  I encountered this problem when trying to compile ch1-05.l and ch1-05.y
>  in "lex & yacc" book example.  Following gives what happens:
> 
>  Flex creates a code as lex.yy.c with line 272:
> 
>  FILE *yyin = stdin, *yyout = stdout;
> 
>  When it is compiled with:
> 
>  $ cc -g -o prog lex.yy.c y.tab.c -lfl
> 
>  Compiler chokes by spitting out to stderr:
> 
>  lex.yy.c:272: initializer element is not constant
>  lex.yy.c:272: initializer element is not constant
> 
>       This is an issue with recent versions of the GNU libc.
> 
>       The Debian user had mad available a copy of a test suite where
>  this problem is demonstrated, and I have made a copy available at:
>  http://people.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/testflex.tar.gz
> 
>       Thanks for your consideration.
> 
>       manoj
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> Manoj Srivastava   <address@hidden>  <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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