Re: Bison/flex compatibility revisited

[John]

> Has anybody profiled a static lexical analyzer to see how much
> overhead the yyget_out etc. function calls add to run time?

It would be unnoticable.


> I cannot imagine a scenario where I specify a prefix foo and *don't*
> want the equivalent of #define yylex foolex, etc.  Can you?

Yes, if there is an existing function "yylex" (or "yy_whatever"), and
you don't want to clash with it. This is why namespaces were invented.