LEX rule, anyone???

[T. William Wells]

In article <21108 at mimsy.umd.edu> cml at tove.umd.edu (Christopher Lott) writes:
:    /* this is a regular expression to match a c comment       */
:    /* written by cml 890922   (probably not minimal)  */
: %%
: "/*"([^*]|[*]*[^*/])*[*]+"/"  {printf("saw a c comment.\n");}
: .                             {putchar(*yytext);}

This breaks if the comment is longer than lex's internal buffer.
Moreoever, at least some lex's do *not* check for buffer overflow.

Boom.

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