Re: pure parsers and reentrant scanners - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: pure parsers and reentrant scanners
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Msg-id a2824e22-1ecb-4787-8731-0abceada594c@iki.fi
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In response to Re: pure parsers and reentrant scanners  (Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>)
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On 26/12/2024 20:27, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 22.12.24 22:43, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
>> On 12/19/24 9:57 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> Here is an updated patch set on top of what has been committed so 
>>> far, with all the issues you pointed out addressed.
>>
>> Other than the discussion of how old versions of flex we should 
>> support I think this set of patches is ready to be committed. I looked 
>> at it again and everything looks good.
> 
> I have committed these except the plpgsql one, which was still work in 
> progress.  But I have progressed on this now and also converted the 
> parser and put the local state into yyextra.  This gets rid of all 
> internal global state now.  The patches for this are attached.  It's a 
> lot of churn, but otherwise pretty standard stuff.

Looks good to me.

> Along the way I noticed that the flex documentation now recommends a 
> different way to set the yyextra type.  So I have changed the ones we 
> already have to that newer style.  I inspected the generated C code and 
> there wasn't any significant difference, so I'm not sure, but I figure 
> if we're making changes in this area we might as well use the modern style.

+1. According to the flex NEWS file, this syntax was added in flex 
2.5.34, and we already require 2.5.35.

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Heikki Linnakangas
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