unnamed-faq-78

     To: soumen@almaden.ibm.com
     Subject: Re: Flex++ 2.5.3 instance member vs. static member
     In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 27 Jul 1998 02:10:04 PDT.
     Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 01:10:34 PDT
     From: Vern Paxson <vern>
     
     > %{
     > int mylineno = 0;
     > %}
     > ws      [ \t]+
     > alpha   [A-Za-z]
     > dig     [0-9]
     > %%
     >
     > Now you'd expect mylineno to be a member of each instance of class
     > yyFlexLexer, but is this the case?  A look at the lex.yy.cc file seems to
     > indicate otherwise; unless I am missing something the declaration of
     > mylineno seems to be outside any class scope.
     >
     > How will this work if I want to run a multi-threaded application with each
     > thread creating a FlexLexer instance?
     
     Derive your own subclass and make mylineno a member variable of it.
     
     		Vern