Commit 224fa96d authored by albert-github's avatar albert-github

Alterative way to get rules information from flex

This patch describes an alternative way to get rules / debug information from flex files
parent 8eeaae0b
...@@ -190,13 +190,13 @@ could extract information from the XML output. Possible tools could be: ...@@ -190,13 +190,13 @@ could extract information from the XML output. Possible tools could be:
Since doxygen uses a lot of \c flex code it is important to understand Since doxygen uses a lot of \c flex code it is important to understand
how \c flex works (for this one should read the man page) how \c flex works (for this one should read the man page)
and to understand what it is doing when \c flex is parsing some input. and to understand what it is doing when \c flex is parsing some input.
Fortunately, when flex is used with the -d option it outputs what rules Fortunately, when flex is used with the `-d` option it outputs what rules
matched. This makes it quite easy to follow what is going on for a matched. This makes it quite easy to follow what is going on for a
particular input fragment. particular input fragment.
To make it easier to toggle debug information for a given flex file I To make it easier to toggle debug information for a given flex file I
wrote the following perl script, which automatically adds or removes -d wrote the following perl script, which automatically adds or removes `-d`
from the correct line in the Makefile: from the correct line in the \c Makefile:
\verbatim \verbatim
#!/usr/bin/perl #!/usr/bin/perl
...@@ -236,6 +236,19 @@ $now = time; ...@@ -236,6 +236,19 @@ $now = time;
utime $now, $now, $file utime $now, $now, $file
\endverbatim \endverbatim
Another way to get rules matching / debugging information from the flex code is in the following way:
\verbatim
touch src/<flex code file>.l
make LEX="flex -d"
\endverbatim
to remove the rules / debug information again:
\verbatim
touch src/<flex codefile>.l
make
\endverbatim
Note that by running doxygen with `-d lex` you get information about which flex
codefile is used.
\htmlonly \htmlonly
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