eliminate warnings from arlex.c
Ian Lance Taylor
ian@wasabisystems.com
Wed Dec 8 04:37:00 GMT 2004
"Ben Elliston" <bje@au1.ibm.com> writes:
> > %option is specific to flex. I personally don't think the cost of a
> > few warnings is enough to justify requiring flex here, particularly
> > since we don't distribute flex with the binutils. But that is just
> > my opinion.
>
> Don't binutils releases include the generated files? Isn't it only
> developers that require host tools like flex?
Yes. But lots of people do binutils development. I have no problem
with requiring particular tools when it is useful. But we should only
require a new tool for a sufficiently good reason. I'm not sure that
eliminating a few warnings is a sufficiently good reason.
Ian
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