Re: Flex size_t sizes

Akim Demaille <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Oct 2021 05:43:30 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.parsers.bison.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Uxio,

> Le 16 oct. 2021 à 22:38, uxio prego <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Hans,
> 
>> On 14 Oct 2021, at 15:23, Hans Åberg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 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?

Bison per se has no special bound with flex.  It can use any parser generator.  People are used to the "Bison + Flex" tandem, because of Yacc and Lex, that's all.

And Flex is not particularly actively maintained.