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From: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: LEX rule, anyone???
Message-ID: <616@chem.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 7 Dec 89 08:36:32 GMT
References: <601@vice2utc.chalmers.se> <224@bohra.cpg.oz> <1989Dec6.180833.2985@twwells.com>
Reply-To: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch)
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In article <1989Dec6.180833.2985@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:

>... start states are not reliable with lex. After
>being bitten by them for the n'th time, I switched to flex.

I know of a bug that involves variable length trailing contexts (this
happens in flex, too), but I've never run into a bug with start states.
Can you give specifics?
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|| Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry	tps@chem.ucsd.edu