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From: vern@daffy.ee.lbl.gov (Vern Paxson)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: Restarting lex portably (or flex)
Keywords: lex, flex
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Date: 21 Feb 91 01:08:28 GMT
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In article <9102162312.AA03862@pepsi.eng.umd.edu> buzzard@eng.umd.edu (Sean Barrett) writes:
>Is there a way to start lex processing a new file when the
>previous one was *not* processed all the way to end-of-file?
> ...
>flex provides yyrestart(FILE *f), but ... is unclear whether
>[it needs to have reached EOF on the previous file first.]

It is not a precondition.  I'll correct the documentation with the
next (2.4) release (no time estimate as to when that'll be, yet,
except "summer").  If you have problems with yyrestart() let me know.

		Vern

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