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authorVern Paxson <vern@ee.lbl.gov>1993-04-05 20:37:50 +0000
committerVern Paxson <vern@ee.lbl.gov>1993-04-05 20:37:50 +0000
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+Changes between 2.3 Patch #8 (21Feb93) and 2.3 Patch #7:
+
+ - Fixed bugs in dynamic memory allocation leading to grievous
+ fencepost problems when generating large scanners.
+ - Fixed bug causing infinite loops on character classes with 8-bit
+ characters in them.
+ - Fixed bug in matching repetitions with a lower bound of 0.
+ - Fixed bug in scanning NUL characters using an "interactive" scanner.
+ - Fixed bug in using yymore() at the end of a file.
+ - Fixed bug in misrecognizing rules with variable trailing context.
+ - Fixed bug compiling flex on Suns using gcc 2.
+ - Fixed bug in not recognizing that input files with the character
+ ASCII 128 in them require the -8 flag.
+ - Fixed bug that could cause an infinite loop writing out
+ error messages.
+ - Fixed bug in not recognizing old-style lex % declarations if
+ followed by a tab instead of a space.
+ - Fixed potential crash when flex terminated early (usually due
+ to a bad flag) and the -v flag had been given.
+ - Added some missing declarations of void functions.
+ - Changed to only use '\a' for __STDC__ compilers.
+ - Updated mailing addresses.
+
+
Changes between 2.3 Patch #7 (28Mar91) and 2.3 Patch #6:
- Fixed out-of-bounds array access that caused bad tables