Re: Flex size_t sizes

Hi Hans,


> On 14 Oct 2021, at 15:23, Hans Åberg <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi Akim,
> 
> Saw you have edited Flex, so I take it up here, even though not strictly a Bison topic:

what do you mean? Isn't westes/flex at GitHub the
"official Flex with regards to contemporary Bison" anymore?

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> The Apple flex version has been edited to admit size_t sizes, 64-bit on the platform, and perhaps it might be good idea for regular flex, which uses int, only 32-bit there. If using '%option c++' and mixing the versions, then the FlexLexer.h header is incompatible with the C++ source code, generating a compile error.
> 
> On MacOS with MacPorts and Xcode, the files are in
> /opt/local/include/FlexLexer.h
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/include/FlexLexer.h
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