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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc/plan9
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:14:54 +0200
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> Lex for the most part has been displaced by flex ["He's dead, Jim"].  In
> past projects I've used re2c, which is considerably more lightweight and
> more akin to hand-generated scanners.  Be warned that while re2c generates
> ANSI C, it is written in C++.  Some folks on the YASM project took it and
> rewrote it in ANSI C but they Borg-ified it into their YASM build system.
> Some cord cutting would be required, but it wouldn't be that difficult to
> do.

mvs lives ... almost.