Re: Flex size_t sizes

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Hi Hans,


> On 14 Oct 2021, at 15:23, Hans Åberg <haberg-1@telia.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Akim,
> 
> Saw you have edited Flex, so I take it up here, even though not strictly a 
> Bison topic:

what do you mean? Isn't westes/flex at GitHub the
"official Flex with regards to contemporary Bison" anymore?

> 
> The Apple flex version has been edited to admit size_t sizes, 64-bit on the 
> platform, and perhaps it might be good idea for regular flex, which uses int, 
> only 32-bit there. If using '%option c++' and mixing the versions, then the 
> FlexLexer.h header is incompatible with the C++ source code, generating a 
> compile error.
> 
> On MacOS with MacPorts and Xcode, the files are in
> /opt/local/include/FlexLexer.h
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/include/FlexLexer.h
> 
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