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Re: error: stray '\' in program

From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
To: Kris Warkentin <kewarken at qnx dot com>
Cc: Nick Ing-Simmons <nick dot ing-simmons at elixent dot com>,Philipp Thomas <pthomas at suse dot de>, Gcc ML <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>,Gabriele Caracausi <gabriele at caracausi dot it>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:13:11 +0100
Subject: Re: error: stray '\' in program
References: <IBECLFGBMEDNHACJGPNMEEBPCBAA.gabriele@caracausi.it> <20030825121838.GP2066@paradies.suse.de> <20030825132103.GA12568@daikokuya.co.uk> <20030826131531.2610.13@llama.elixent.com> <089101c36bd6$6935c210$0202040a@catdog>

Kris Warkentin wrote:-

> > >I doubt it's a bug - I imagine it comes from FIXED_REGISTERS.
> >
> > Possibly \ at "end" of a CRLF terminated line is not seen as
> line-continued?
> 
> We've observed this problem with dos formatted files.  The preprocessor
> seems to choke on them.  Probably a good idea to open text files as O_TEXT.

This problem should be present only in official GCC <= 2.95.x.  3.x
should all work perfectly.

Neil.

References:
- error: stray '\' in program
  - From: Gabriele Caracausi
- Re: error: stray '\' in program
  - From: Philipp Thomas
- Re: error: stray '\' in program
  - From: Neil Booth
- Re: error: stray '\' in program
  - From: Nick Ing-Simmons
- Re: error: stray '\' in program
  - From: Kris Warkentin

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