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Re: eliminate warnings from arlex.c
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>
- To: "Ben Elliston" <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 07 Dec 2004 22:51:39 -0500
- Subject: Re: eliminate warnings from arlex.c
- References: <20041208030644.GA21738@namadgi>
"Ben Elliston" <bje@au1.ibm.com> writes:
> The file arlex.c, generated from arlex.l, generates some warnings.
> This patch silences those warnings. The only part I am uncertain
> about is the use of %option nounput. This looks to be a flex-specific
> option that may not be supported by other versions of lex(1). Is this
> true? Does it really matter?
%option is specific to flex. I personally don't think the cost of a
few warnings is enough to justify requiring flex here, particularly
since we don't distribute flex with the binutils. But that is just my
opinion.
Ian