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     To: hassan@larc.info.uqam.ca (Hassan Alaoui)
     Subject: Re: Thanks
     In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 22 Dec 1997 16:06:35 PST.
     Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:35:05 PST
     From: Vern Paxson <vern>
     
     > Thank you very much for your help. I compile and link well with C++ while
     > declaring 'yylex ...' extern, But a little problem remains. I get a
     > segmentation default when executing ( I linked with lfl library) while it
     > works well when using LEX instead of flex. Do you have some ideas about the
     > reason for this ?
     
     The one possible reason for this that comes to mind is if you've defined
     yytext as "extern char yytext[]" (which is what lex uses) instead of
     "extern char *yytext" (which is what flex uses).  If it's not that, then
     I'm afraid I don't know what the problem might be.
     
     		Vern