Binary package: flex
Version: 2.6.0-alt1
Architecture: i586
Source package: flex
Category: Development/Other
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License:  BSD-style
Summary:  A fast lexical analyzer generator
Description: 

flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognized lexical
patterns in text.  flex reads the given input files for a description of a
scanner to generate.  The description is in the form of pairs of regular
expressions and C code, called rules.  flex generates as output a C source
file, lex.yy.c, which defines a routine yylex().  This file is compiled
and linked with the -lfl library to produce an executable.  When the
executable is run, it analyzes its input for occurrences of the regular
expressions.  Whenever it finds one, it executes the corresponding C code.

The behaviour of Flex has undergone a major change since version
2.5.4a.  Flex scanners are now reentrant, you may have multiple
scanners in the same program with differing sets of defaults, and
they play nicer with modern C and C++ compilers.  The Flip side is
that Flex no longer conforms to the POSIX lex behaviour, and the
scanners require conforming implementations when flex is used in ANSI
C mode.  The package flex-old provides the older behaviour.

- Updated to v2.6.0-8-g9ba6e52.

- Reverted upstream commit flex-2.5.37-10-gec2fdb8 that introduced
  certain regressions.

- Updated to flex-2.5.37-17-gbac5b2b.
- flex.skl: fixed warnings generated by gcc -Wunused-parameter
  (closes: #27661).