lex bugs
utzoo!henry
utzoo!henry
Thu Apr 22 20:47:40 AEST 1982
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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