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
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