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2015-11-19Update flex from ancient 2.5.4 to the recent 2.5.39.Ted Unangst
This work was all done by Serguey Parkhomovsky. Thanks. Some changes from upstream: * Removed autotools cruft/localization/texinfo manual/etc * Kept the old manpage, as the new manpage is content-free * Used safe string handling functions and fixed several compiler warnings * pledge(2). Flex 2.5.39 now forks/execs its filter chains and needs proc exec in addition to what was previously pledged * Removed register keyword from all variable declarations * renamed parse.c, parse.h, scan.c, skel.c with init prefix so compiling flex outside of obj by accident wouldn't clobber the bootstrap files * Minor fixes (spelling, accessing buf[strlen(buf) - 1] for zero-length strings in initscan.c/scan.l, etc) that were already in our tree This is a huge change, so it's going in the tree code bomb style. I'm not excited about the growth in complexity (like now running m4 to _post_ process lexers) but hopefully this will be a one time update and we will now take "ownership" of the code.