Re: YY_INPUT causes crash

[James Hughes]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:11:48AM -0400, W. L. Estes wrote:
> On Saturday, 20 July 2002,14:13 -0400, James Hughes wrote:
> 
> > You're right: this is not a flex problem. I know this because
> > I attempted to compile and run a simple program using getchar()
> > (from page 17 of K&R 2nd. ed. to be exact) and I get the same 
> > behaviour. However, could gcc screw up something so basic as 
> > reading from stdin, no matter how unstable the version?
> > 
> > Very bizarre.
> 
> It is odd, but gcc has a history of being not for the feint of heart.

True, but that wasn't my problem here. I was running my programs
from the command line of an emacs terminal. Emacs terminals are very 
flaky, and I guess they have trouble with stdin, or something. 
Running from a regular shell behaves as expected.
Silly me, I should have thought of that first.

James

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