From: gene.ressler@gmail.com   
      
   On Nov 6, 8:54 am, parthaspand...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > A flex generated scanner could decide to store the entire input file   
   > in memory. That way, a single buffer can be used in several places in   
   > the tool chain that uses a scanner. ...   
      
   > [This is a very old idea.  Turbo Pascal buffered full source files in   
   > RAM in the 1980s. -John]   
      
   The C preprocessor of gcc also buffers entire files, or at least did   
   in the version I studied some years ago.  It used a hand-coded   
   scanner, however, not lex/flex.   
      
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