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The ultimate goal of this project is to enable flex to generate scanners in PHP. The intermediate goal is to transform flex's engine to something more Bison-like which allows different skeletons for different languages more easily.

This repository was created with git cvsimport without an author-conv-file which means that it shouldn't be used for anything other than providing patches back to flex.

There are two types of branches in this repository. master, flex-2-5-6-branch and m4 reflect the branches available in the CVS repository.

• m4-nopreproc is branched off master and removes the m4 preprocessing of the skeleton file.

• autotest is branched off m4-nopreproc and converts the testsuite to autotest.

• m4v2 is branched off autotest and implements a Bison-like architecture (or at least it tries to :-)). I originally envisioned migrating code from C to m4 section by section, but soon I had to realize that flex's code is too intertwined for that so at the moment the branch looks like a crowded attic that lots of stuff has been shoved into - but it works :-).

As I am (so far) the sole contributor to this project, I frequently git rebase commits so that the history isn't cluttered with "introduced a bug, found a bug, fixed a bug" cycles and corrections of typos & Co.

Any feedback, suggestions and bug reports are highly appreciated! :-)