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To: Enda Fadian <fadiane@piercom.ie>
Subject: Re: Question related to Flex man page?
In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 16 Dec 1997 15:17:34 PST.
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 14:17:09 PST
From: Vern Paxson <vern>
> Can you explain to me what is ment by a long-jump in relation to flex?
Using the longjmp() function while inside yylex() or a routine called by it.
> what is the flex activation frame.
Just yylex()'s stack frame.
> As far as I can see yyrestart will bring me back to the sart of the input
> file and using flex++ isnot really an option!
No, yyrestart() doesn't imply a rewind, even though its name might sound
like it does. It tells the scanner to flush its internal buffers and
start reading from the given file at its present location.
Vern
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