Hi all, >> On 4/1/21 16:28, Stephen Taylor via Users list for the GNU Bison parser >> generator wrote: >>> Thanks, that seems to get around \x00 -- unfortunately, the same issue then >>> reappears with the values \x80 - \xff … I could special case every single >>> value e.g. >>> \x00 {return ZERO; } >>> \x80 { return X80; } >>> \x81 { return X81; } >>> : >>> \xff { return XFF; } >>> . | \n { return *yytext; } >>> But seems a bit clumsy. Any thoughts?
>> On Apr 1, 2021, at 11:05, John P. Hartmann <jphartm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Write your own scanner in C. FWIW, I agree with that statement. There is no reason at all for \x80... to be special. Unless you return a char, which is probably a signed char, so what you think is 255 is actually -128. Make sure your types are right. Just call your scanner by hand and printf %d what you get.