From 1c439cfab2912e1e8b229ae7f21b635254180d80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 14:23:30 -0400 Subject: Finish up the simple-test set for C99. --- doc/flex.texi | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') 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 -- cgit v1.2.1