#2117: Flex-2.5.34 --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: LydianKnight | Owner: [email protected] Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0 Component: Book | Version: SVN Severity: normal | Keywords: --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- There's a new version for Flex, that's 2.5.34, released on December 12th 2007
Changelog is huge, compared with previous versions of Flex, here's the (trimmed) selected changes for this version since 2.5.33: - introduce yylex_init_extra[[BR]] - introduce %option extra-type="your_type *"[[BR]] - The flex program now parses multiple short concatenated options[[BR]] - better checking after yyalloc/yyrealloc[[BR]] - flex now provides for a libfl_pic.a compiled with -fPIC[[BR]] - expose YY_BUF_SIZE in the header file[[BR]] - flex better escapes filenames with special characters in them[[BR]] - a memory leak was plugged[[BR]] - pattern language expanded[[BR]] - pattern options added to specify patterns as case-insensitive or case- sensitive[[BR]] - pattern options to specify whether the "." character should match the newline character[[BR]] - pattern options added to allow ignoring of whitespace in patterns[[BR]] - POSIX character classes may be negated in patterns[[BR]] - patterns may now use set difference, union operators[[BR]] - the manual now contains an appendix listing various common patterns[[BR]] - some memory leaks were removed from the C++ scanner (still experimental)[[BR]] - c++ scanners can now use yywrap[[BR]] - added new unit test for c++ and yywrap[[BR]] - portability fixes to some unit tests[[BR]] - flex man page and flex manual in pdf now distributed in the flex distribution[[BR]] - new ca, vi, ga, nl translations from the translation project[[BR]] - flex no longer comes with an rpm spec file[[BR]] - flex development now happens with automake 1.9.6[[BR]] http://downloads.sourceforge.net/flex/flex-2.5.34.tar.bz2 Julio -- Ticket URL: <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2117> LFS Trac <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/> Linux From Scratch: Your Distro, Your Rules. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
