Hans Åberg wrote: > > I haven't used gcc-8 yet, but how is this relevant? If anything, I > > expect newer gcc versions to produce more warnings (usually useful) > > which flex might also suffer from. > > Maybe the Flex lexers errors is due to using C89 to compile it or something.
No, the warnings seemed legit. > > Interesting, thanks. Fortunately, my REs are not so complex, so the > > bug you reported won't affect me and lexing speed is not so > > important for me, so (at least for now) I can just use the library > > as is. But if I ever need something more sophisticated, I'll keep > > this in mind. > > If that is what you are using, note that it is recursive, so the function > stack might overflow. But perhaps the rewrite it someday. I don't think my lexing REs should cause much recursion. No nested repetitions or such. Regards, Frank
