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The Fast Lexical Analyzer - scanner generator for lexing in C and C++

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2017-07-08 · latest 2022-11-10

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  1. …Edit: In case the parentheses don't work (percentage encoding didn't), try: https://github.com/westes/flex
    comment by kseistrup · 2022-11-10 · in Show HN: Flex – transpile natural language to a programming language
  2. …I'd probably write a lexer and recursive descent parser by hand, then generate LLVM IR [4]. [1] https://github.com/westes/flex [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/ [3] https://www.antlr.org/ [4] https://llvm.org/ * for a subset of the…
    comment by optymizer · 2021-08-03 · in Show HN: A work-in-progress C compiler from scratch
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    Ask HN: Core GNU components (flex, libtool) in dismaintenance
    story by eqvinox · 2019-12-11 · 6 comments
  4. I remember building funny little DSL-Tools with flex and bison. https://github.com/westes/flex I used it for AutoSar applications, where you create tailored embeded programs from a DSL specification.
    comment by louithethrid · 2017-07-08 · in Lessons learned building a toy compiler