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Re: Should we require Flex with reentrant scanner support?
From: Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 10:01:39 -0400
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
Currently, we require Flex, rather than Lex, but we don't require a version of Flex sufficiently new to support reentrant scanners. That's not a major issue yet, but it could potentially be an issue if we make more use of threading and have two threads in the same process 1) both reading Lucent/Ascend ISDN device text output files; 2) both reading Tektronix K12 text files; 3) both importing text files as captures; as those all involve Flex scanners. It *might* also come up if any of the other Flex-scanner code is run in more than one thread at once. If we also require a version of Flex that supports --header-file=, it could also let us clean up or even eliminate the runlex.sh script, as those versions of Flex can generate a .h files that declares functions. Flex 2.5.6 (from some time in 2002, I think) adds support for reentrant scanners. It also supports --header=, which was renamed to --header-file in Flex 2.5.19, released 2002-09-05. We'd also want to require Bison or Berkeley YACC, to generate reentrant parsers, for the Lucent/Ascend ISDN device text file reader.
I think requiring software released in 2002 is probably safe, we already require much more recent versions of most other libraries. Evan ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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