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+/* Lexical analysis for genksyms.
+   Copyright 1996, 1997 Linux International.
+
+   New implementation contributed by Richard Henderson <rth@tamu.edu>
+   Based on original work by Bjorn Ekwall <bj0rn@blox.se>
+
+   Taken from Linux modutils 2.4.22.
+
+   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+   under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+   Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
+   option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+   General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+   Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
+
+
+%{
+
+#include <limits.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <ctype.h>
+
+#include "genksyms.h"
+#include "parse.h"
+
+/* We've got a two-level lexer here.  We let flex do basic tokenization
+   and then we categorize those basic tokens in the second stage.  */
+#define YY_DECL		static int yylex1(void)
+
+%}
+
+IDENT			[A-Za-z_\$][A-Za-z0-9_\$]*
+
+O_INT			0[0-7]*
+D_INT			[1-9][0-9]*
+X_INT			0[Xx][0-9A-Fa-f]+
+I_SUF			[Uu]|[Ll]|[Uu][Ll]|[Ll][Uu]
+INT			({O_INT}|{D_INT}|{X_INT}){I_SUF}?
+
+FRAC			([0-9]*\.[0-9]+)|([0-9]+\.)
+EXP			[Ee][+-]?[0-9]+
+F_SUF			[FfLl]
+REAL			({FRAC}{EXP}?{F_SUF}?)|([0-9]+{EXP}{F_SUF}?)
+
+STRING			L?\"([^\\\"]*\\.)*[^\\\"]*\"
+CHAR			L?\'([^\\\']*\\.)*[^\\\']*\'
+
+MC_TOKEN		([~%^&*+=|<>/-]=)|(&&)|("||")|(->)|(<<)|(>>)
+
+/* Version 2 checksumming does proper tokenization; version 1 wasn't
+   quite so pedantic.  */
+%s V2_TOKENS
+
+/* We don't do multiple input files.  */
+%option noyywrap
+
+%%
+
+
+ /* Keep track of our location in the original source files.  */
+^#[ \t]+{INT}[ \t]+\"[^\"\n]+\".*\n	return FILENAME;
+^#.*\n					cur_line++;
+\n					cur_line++;
+
+ /* Ignore all other whitespace.  */
+[ \t\f\v\r]+				;
+
+
+{STRING}				return STRING;
+{CHAR}					return CHAR;
+{IDENT}					return IDENT;
+
+ /* The Pedant requires that the other C multi-character tokens be
+    recognized as tokens.  We don't actually use them since we don't
+    parse expressions, but we do want whitespace to be arranged
+    around them properly.  */
+<V2_TOKENS>{MC_TOKEN}			return OTHER;
+<V2_TOKENS>{INT}			return INT;
+<V2_TOKENS>{REAL}			return REAL;
+
+"..."					return DOTS;
+
+ /* All other tokens are single characters.  */
+.					return yytext[0];
+
+
+%%
+
+/* Bring in the keyword recognizer.  */
+
+#include "keywords.c"
+
+
+/* Macros to append to our phrase collection list.  */
+
+#define _APP(T,L)	do {						   \
+			  cur_node = next_node;				   \
+			  next_node = xmalloc(sizeof(*next_node));	   \
+			  next_node->next = cur_node;			   \
+			  cur_node->string = memcpy(xmalloc(L+1), T, L+1); \
+			  cur_node->tag = SYM_NORMAL;			   \
+			} while (0)
+
+#define APP		_APP(yytext, yyleng)
+
+
+/* The second stage lexer.  Here we incorporate knowledge of the state
+   of the parser to tailor the tokens that are returned.  */
+
+int
+yylex(void)
+{
+  static enum {
+    ST_NOTSTARTED, ST_NORMAL, ST_ATTRIBUTE, ST_ASM, ST_BRACKET, ST_BRACE,
+    ST_EXPRESSION, ST_TABLE_1, ST_TABLE_2, ST_TABLE_3, ST_TABLE_4,
+    ST_TABLE_5, ST_TABLE_6
+  } lexstate = ST_NOTSTARTED;
+
+  static int suppress_type_lookup, dont_want_brace_phrase;
+  static struct string_list *next_node;
+
+  int token, count = 0;
+  struct string_list *cur_node;
+
+  if (lexstate == ST_NOTSTARTED)
+    {
+      BEGIN(V2_TOKENS);
+      next_node = xmalloc(sizeof(*next_node));
+      next_node->next = NULL;
+      lexstate = ST_NORMAL;
+    }
+
+repeat:
+  token = yylex1();
+
+  if (token == 0)
+    return 0;
+  else if (token == FILENAME)
+    {
+      char *file, *e;
+
+      /* Save the filename and line number for later error messages.  */
+
+      if (cur_filename)
+	free(cur_filename);
+
+      file = strchr(yytext, '\"')+1;
+      e = strchr(file, '\"');
+      *e = '\0';
+      cur_filename = memcpy(xmalloc(e-file+1), file, e-file+1);
+      cur_line = atoi(yytext+2);
+
+      goto repeat;
+    }
+
+  switch (lexstate)
+    {
+    case ST_NORMAL:
+      switch (token)
+	{
+	case IDENT:
+	  APP;
+	  {
+	    const struct resword *r = is_reserved_word(yytext, yyleng);
+	    if (r)
+	      {
+		switch (token = r->token)
+		  {
+		  case ATTRIBUTE_KEYW:
+		    lexstate = ST_ATTRIBUTE;
+		    count = 0;
+		    goto repeat;
+		  case ASM_KEYW:
+		    lexstate = ST_ASM;
+		    count = 0;
+		    goto repeat;
+
+		  case STRUCT_KEYW:
+		  case UNION_KEYW:
+		    dont_want_brace_phrase = 3;
+		  case ENUM_KEYW:
+		    suppress_type_lookup = 2;
+		    goto fini;
+
+		  case EXPORT_SYMBOL_KEYW:
+		      goto fini;
+		  }
+	      }
+	    if (!suppress_type_lookup)
+	      {
+		struct symbol *sym = find_symbol(yytext, SYM_TYPEDEF);
+		if (sym && sym->type == SYM_TYPEDEF)
+		  token = TYPE;
+	      }
+	  }
+	  break;
+
+	case '[':
+	  APP;
+	  lexstate = ST_BRACKET;
+	  count = 1;
+	  goto repeat;
+
+	case '{':
+	  APP;
+	  if (dont_want_brace_phrase)
+	    break;
+	  lexstate = ST_BRACE;
+	  count = 1;
+	  goto repeat;
+
+	case '=': case ':':
+	  APP;
+	  lexstate = ST_EXPRESSION;
+	  break;
+
+	case DOTS:
+	default:
+	  APP;
+	  break;
+	}
+      break;
+
+    case ST_ATTRIBUTE:
+      APP;
+      switch (token)
+	{
+	case '(':
+	  ++count;
+	  goto repeat;
+	case ')':
+	  if (--count == 0)
+	    {
+	      lexstate = ST_NORMAL;
+	      token = ATTRIBUTE_PHRASE;
+	      break;
+	    }
+	  goto repeat;
+	default:
+	  goto repeat;
+	}
+      break;
+
+    case ST_ASM:
+      APP;
+      switch (token)
+	{
+	case '(':
+	  ++count;
+	  goto repeat;
+	case ')':
+	  if (--count == 0)
+	    {
+	      lexstate = ST_NORMAL;
+	      token = ASM_PHRASE;
+	      break;
+	    }
+	  goto repeat;
+	default:
+	  goto repeat;
+	}
+      break;
+
+    case ST_BRACKET:
+      APP;
+      switch (token)
+	{
+	case '[':
+	  ++count;
+	  goto repeat;
+	case ']':
+	  if (--count == 0)
+	    {
+	      lexstate = ST_NORMAL;
+	      token = BRACKET_PHRASE;
+	      break;
+	    }
+	  goto repeat;
+	default:
+	  goto repeat;
+	}
+      break;
+
+    case ST_BRACE:
+      APP;
+      switch (token)
+	{
+	case '{':
+	  ++count;
+	  goto repeat;
+	case '}':
+	  if (--count == 0)
+	    {
+	      lexstate = ST_NORMAL;
+	      token = BRACE_PHRASE;
+	      break;
+	    }
+	  goto repeat;
+	default:
+	  goto repeat;
+	}
+      break;
+
+    case ST_EXPRESSION:
+      switch (token)
+	{
+	case '(': case '[': case '{':
+	  ++count;
+	  APP;
+	  goto repeat;
+	case ')': case ']': case '}':
+	  --count;
+	  APP;
+	  goto repeat;
+	case ',': case ';':
+	  if (count == 0)
+	    {
+	      /* Put back the token we just read so's we can find it again
+		 after registering the expression.  */
+	      unput(token);
+
+	      lexstate = ST_NORMAL;
+	      token = EXPRESSION_PHRASE;
+	      break;
+	    }
+	  APP;
+	  goto repeat;
+	default:
+	  APP;
+	  goto repeat;
+	}
+      break;
+
+    case ST_TABLE_1:
+      goto repeat;
+
+    case ST_TABLE_2:
+      if (token == IDENT && yyleng == 1 && yytext[0] == 'X')
+	{
+	  token = EXPORT_SYMBOL_KEYW;
+	  lexstate = ST_TABLE_5;
+	  APP;
+	  break;
+	}
+      lexstate = ST_TABLE_6;
+      /* FALLTHRU */
+
+    case ST_TABLE_6:
+      switch (token)
+	{
+	case '{': case '[': case '(':
+	  ++count;
+	  break;
+	case '}': case ']': case ')':
+	  --count;
+	  break;
+	case ',':
+	  if (count == 0)
+	    lexstate = ST_TABLE_2;
+	  break;
+	};
+      goto repeat;
+
+    case ST_TABLE_3:
+      goto repeat;
+
+    case ST_TABLE_4:
+      if (token == ';')
+	lexstate = ST_NORMAL;
+      goto repeat;
+
+    case ST_TABLE_5:
+      switch (token)
+	{
+	case ',':
+	  token = ';';
+	  lexstate = ST_TABLE_2;
+	  APP;
+	  break;
+	default:
+	  APP;
+	  break;
+	}
+      break;
+
+    default:
+      abort();
+    }
+fini:
+
+  if (suppress_type_lookup > 0)
+    --suppress_type_lookup;
+  if (dont_want_brace_phrase > 0)
+    --dont_want_brace_phrase;
+
+  yylval = &next_node->next;
+
+  return token;
+}