unnamed-faq-88

     To: "Guido Minnen" <guidomi@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
     Subject: Re: Flex error message
     In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 24 Feb 1999 15:31:46 PST.
     Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:11:31 PST
     From: Vern Paxson <vern>
     
     > I'm extending a larger scanner written in Flex and I keep running into
     > problems. More specifically, I get the error message:
     > "flex: input rules are too complicated (>= 32000 NFA states)"
     
     Increase the definitions in flexdef.h for:
     
     #define JAMSTATE -32766 /* marks a reference to the state that always j
     ams */
     #define MAXIMUM_MNS 31999
     #define BAD_SUBSCRIPT -32767
     
     recompile everything, and it should all work.
     
     		Vern