Much simplified lexer

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

David Relson wrote:

>> > Insprired by our discussion, Tom, I changed the lexer to be
>> > more in the fashion you describe. If you want to see if it
>> > works for you, it is attached.
>> 
>> How does "size lexer_v3.o" change?
> 
> [relson at osage src]$ ll lexer_v3.l lexer_v3.pi.1112.l
> -rw-r--r--    1 relson   relson      11861 Nov 12 08:11 lexer_v3.l
> -rw-rw-r--    1 relson   relson      11627 Nov 12 08:12
> lexer_v3.pi.1112.l
> 
> [relson at osage src]$ size lexer_v3.o lexer_v3.pi.1112.o
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   41899	      8	     60	  41967	   a3ef	lexer_v3.o
>   51610	      8	  65640	 117258	  1ca0a	lexer_v3.pi.1112.o
> 
> While the source file is slightly smaller (approx 150 bytes), the .o
> file is much larger (almost 3x)

I don't get it. It is really suprising to see this explode,
since I removed rules or simplified them, some character
classes slightly changed their size. If I take the last CVS
version David sent over the list and my version, I get this:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  42597      32   65632  108261   1a6e5 lexer_v3.cvs.o
  50233      32   65632  115897   1c4b9 lexer_v3.new.o

pi