Package: flex Version: 2.5.35-6 Severity: important Hi there.
I'm the first to admit that I'm a flex newbie, but I think I found a problem that affects all users of this program. Basically, flex can generate code that will get stuck in an infinite loop on some input patterns. It should reject the specification if this is a possibility. To demonstrate this, I've released version 1.0.3 of v3c into git. You can obtain this by changing to a directory writable by you and.. git-clone git://v3c.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/v3c cd v3c make git tag="1.0.3" check You will need the usual development tools - git, automake, autoconf, libtool, g++ ... This check ends with the "options_test" run by "run_options_test" being aborted because of a timeout necessitated by the infinite loop. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages flex depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii m4 1.4.11-1 a macro processing language Versions of packages flex recommends: ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.3.2-2 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.1 [c-compiler] 4.1.2-25 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.3 [c-compiler] 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU C compiler Versions of packages flex suggests: ii bison 1:2.3.dfsg-5 A parser generator that is compati -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org