To: Colin Paul Adams <colin@colina.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Flex C++ classes and Bison
In-reply-to: Your message of 09 Aug 1997 17:11:41 PDT.
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:48:19 PDT
From: Vern Paxson <vern>

> #define YY_DECL   int yylex (YYSTYPE *lvalp, struct parser_control
> *parm)
>
> I have been trying  to get this to work as a C++ scanner, but it does
> not appear to be possible (warning that it matches no declarations in
> yyFlexLexer, or something like that).
>
> Is this supposed to be possible, or is it being worked on (I DID
> notice the comment that scanner classes are still experimental, so I'm
> not too hopeful)?

What you need to do is derive a subclass from yyFlexLexer that provides
the above yylex() method, squirrels away lvalp and parm into member
variables, and then invokes yyFlexLexer::yylex() to do the regular scanning.

		Vern