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Re: stray '\xxx' in program
- From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- To: David Balla <ballad at physik dot uni-wuerzburg dot de>
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:26:25 +0100
- Subject: Re: stray '\xxx' in program
- References: <41FAA58E.10205@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
* David Balla:
> I get following message when compileing my program:
> myfile.h:1: error: stray '\239' in program
> myfile.h:1: error: stray '\187' in program
> myfile.h:1: error: stray '\191' in program
>
> Maybe it's something trivial, but I couldn't find the explanation of
> this error message. Please, help me out.
Something is rather broken because these numbers should be in octal.
Can you run "od -c myfile.h", and show us the output?