What has become of buff and word and fgetsl?

[Nick Simicich]

At 02:17 AM 2003-02-25 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:

>Yup. And I wonder if memory allocation is the issue here or backing up
>in the scanner.

In the case of the really huge tokens, it is an issue of reparsing the 
token to duplicate the state every time you expand the buffer in flex, I think.

That is why + is dangerous.

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