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- Autzoo.1596
- net.bugs.v7
- utzoo!henry
- Thu Apr 22 20:47:40 1982
- lex bugs
- The following are locally-discovered bugs in lex:
-
- 1. The minimal lex program, "%%", which supposedly copies input to
- output, in fact exits immediately.
-
- 2. Lex is weak on syntax checking. In particular, a null action does
- strange things and is not diagnosed. The example in the Bell
- manual page contains a null action that should be a semicolon.
-
- 3. Ratfor output has been essentially abandoned, as is documented in the
- machine-readable lex manual but *not* in the printed V7 manual.
-
- 4. The lex library, which should be named libl.a, is in fact named
- libln.a . Its sources are in the lex source directory, and the
- makefile there builds it properly.
-