Re: Reentrancy

[Hans Aberg]

At 21:45 +0100 2004/03/09, Laurence Finston wrote:
>I'm writing the input routine for GNU 3DLDF using Bison and Flex.
>I've decided to use multiple processes or possibly threads.
>While I've got `yyparse()' to be reentrant, I don't see any obvious
>way of doing this for `yylex()'.  I don't want to have Flex generate
>a C++ scanner (which would be reentrant), partly because the
>documentation says this feature is experimental and partly because I
>don't see any way of getting `yyparse()' to call a member function
>of an object rather than plain `yylex()'.

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I think that later versions of Flex, as Bison, uses M4 to write the output
sources. It should then be easy to write ones own skeleton file, if that is
so needed.

  Hans Aberg