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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2020-10-16 14:23:30 -0400 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2020-10-17 08:40:29 -0400 |
| commit | 1c439cfab2912e1e8b229ae7f21b635254180d80 (patch) | |
| tree | 7ef4be3d6977292648a118ba6b993dc25e3ffc23 /doc | |
| parent | ff0f99585169a435a5638ed2c4fa3b13397ee615 (diff) | |
| download | flex-git-1c439cfab2912e1e8b229ae7f21b635254180d80.tar.gz | |
Finish up the simple-test set for C99.
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diff --git a/doc/flex.texi b/doc/flex.texi index c527fae..9453e6b 100644 --- a/doc/flex.texi +++ b/doc/flex.texi @@ -8786,6 +8786,14 @@ targets. Almost anything generally descended from Algol shouldn't be much more difficult; this certainly includes the whole Pascal/Modula/Oberon family. +The C99 back end can be used for production, but it is really intended +as a launch point to be cloned by people writing support for +additional languages. Accordingly, it omits support for some features +that can't be practically ported out of C in order to lower the +complexity of what needs to be translated to a new target language. +These features are: the Bison bridge, header generation, and loadable +tables. + Some notes about the interesting part: @itemize |