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[chris@…]

I just copied the "runtime support" bit for libman from the libgcc entry that I pasted the xml from, but if that's not accurate feel free to change it. Also, does anyone have a better description for flex++ beyond just being a link to flex?

[chris@…]

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[Bryan Kadzban]

Last time I looked at it, admittedly about ten years ago, flex++ generated lexer code that was usable from a C++ program. flex generated C code only, which might or might not work when compiled as C++, depending on the compiler and the code that got generated.

Looking for more current info, I see on wikipedia the claim that flex++ will generate a couple of classes that can be used from the program. Classes being a C++ thing only, obviously plain flex doesn't do that.

From ​http://linux.die.net/man/1/flex++, I see that the -+ or --c++ flags appear to do the same thing, so flex inspecting argv[0] and automatically treating one of those flags as set when it's called as flex++, seems likely to me.

[bdubbs@…]

This is my suggestion:

flex generates C programs that perform pattern-matching on text.

flex++, an extension of flex, is used for generating C++ code and classes.

[bdubbs@…]

Fixed at revision 10022.