util/lexgen/README
author Craig Heath <craigh@symbian.org>
Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:18:05 +0100
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Bug 2955. Workaround for lack of atomic operations in GCCE standard libraries (fall back to default use of Mutex)

Lexgen
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This is a little tool to generate lexical scanners from a rather simplistic
configuration file. We use it internally in Qt to generate the scanner for the
CSS parser that is built into the toolkit (used for the widget styling and the
HTML import into QTextDocument).

Beware, it's very slow (in generating the code) and it may not generate what
you want. But I like that it generates code that operates on QChar and friends.

Use at your own risk ;-)


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Simon Hausmann <simon.hausmann@nokia.com>