[ITP] re2c

[Max Bowsher]

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.