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[Bug fortran/30452] Strange syntax error with high-value character
- From: "Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 13 Jan 2007 08:42:26 -0000
- Subject: [Bug fortran/30452] Strange syntax error with high-value character
- References: <bug-30452-10391@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>
- Reply-to: gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org
------- Comment #3 from Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de 2007-01-13 08:42 -------
Subject: Re: Strange syntax error with high-value character
jvdelisle at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:
> Turns out that the character 254 which is Hex FE is also the 2's complement
> representation of -2 which is what is used to signal an error if there is a
> missing delimiter. It should not be converting this to an int -2
Same thing happens for character 255, BTW.
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