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Re: [ITP] re2c
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at familiehaase dot de>,<cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 23:22:08 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ITP] re2c
- References: <103779980933.20040513150419@familiehaase.de>
Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> want to maintain re2c: http://re2c.org/
>
> # re2c setup.hint
> @ re2c
No need for the above 2 lines.
> sdesc: "Tool for writing fast and flexible lexers"
> ldesc: "re2c is a tool for generating C-based recognizers from regular
> expressions. re2c-based scanners are efficient: for programming
> languages, given similar specifications, an re2c-based scanner is
> typically almost twice as fast as a flex-based scanner with little or no
> increase in size (possibly a decrease on cisc architectures). Indeed,
> re2c-based scanners are quite competitive with hand-crafted ones."
> category: devel
Devel (uppercase 1st letter)
> requires: cygwin
>
> http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/re2c/setup.hint
> http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/re2c/re2c-0.9.1-1.tar.bz2
> http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/re2c/re2c-0.9.1-1-src.tar.bz2
Your README says that re2c requires re2c to build? It this really correct? (Circular dependency?)
Max.