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Article #58lex bugs
From: utzoohenry
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1982 20:47
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1982 20:47
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The following are locally-discovered bugs in lex: 1. The minimal lex program, "%%", which supposedly copies input to output, in fact exits immediately. 2. Lex is weak on syntax checking. In particular, a null action does strange things and is not diagnosed. The example in the Bell manual page contains a null action that should be a semicolon. 3. Ratfor output has been essentially abandoned, as is documented in the machine-readable lex manual but *not* in the printed V7 manual. 4. The lex library, which should be named libl.a, is in fact named libln.a . Its sources are in the lex source directory, and the makefile there builds it properly.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: utzoo!henry Newsgroups: net.bugs.v7 Subject: lex bugs Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1982 20:47:40 +0000 Message-ID: <anews.Autzoo.1596>