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From: cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Some bug reports
Date: 22 Mar 93 21:23:40
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Mar22212340@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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In-reply-to: mrapple@quack.kfu.com's message of 22 Mar 93 17:40:16 GMT
In article <f0U0DZw@quack.kfu.com> mrapple@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes:
=>The .l file for vtwm 5.1 makes uncompilable code under 386bsd. Running
=>that file through Sun's lex makes compilable code. Ergo a bug in lex?
=>I could try diffing, but I imagine there's more different than similar
=>in the two .c files. Ditto for olvwm's .l file if YYDEBUG is defined as
=>1.
i dunno about the rest, but the above is likely because 386bsd
uses "flex" for lex...
<chuckle> were vtwm's .l file well written, it wouldn't depend on
the version of lex which was being used...
chris
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