Re: flex 2.5.13 released

[Bruce Lilly]

W. L. Estes wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> flex, version 2.5.13, can be found at:
>
> ftp://ftp.uncg.edu/people/wlestes/
>
> This includes John's latest work on the header file and such. Feedback
> is welcome as we're still approaching that official release.
>
> --Will

I think there's a problem:

# make mailparse
flex -d -Caem -8 -Pmail -s  mail_lex.l
make: *** [lex.mail.c] Segmentation fault (core dumped)
make: *** Deleting file `lex.mail.c'
# gdb -d /src/flex/flex-2.5.13 /usr/bin/flex core
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This GDB was configured as "i386-suse-linux"...
Core was generated by `flex -d -Caem -8 -Pmail -s mail_lex.l'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#0  0x0804aaa8 in mkechar (tch=255, fwd=0xbfffdba8, bck=0xbfffec44) at ecs.c:222
222                     bck[fwd[tch]] = bck[tch];
(gdb) print tch
$1 = 255
(gdb) print fwd[tch]
$2 = 134900720
(gdb) print bck[tch]
$3 = 0
(gdb) print bck[fwd[tch]]
Cannot access memory at address 0xe0299c04
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x0804aaa8 in mkechar (tch=255, fwd=0xbfffdba8, bck=0xbfffec44) at ecs.c:222
#1  0x0804a748 in sympartition (ds=0x80a8370, numstates=13, symlist=0xbffff048, 
duplist=0xbfffec44) at dfa.c:1053
#2  0x08049de4 in ntod () at dfa.c:611
#3  0x0804d35b in flex_main (argc=7, argv=0xbffff524) at main.c:164
#4  0x0804d469 in main (argc=7, argv=0xbffff524) at main.c:198
#5  0x400549ed in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) q