Preprocessor bug in 2.95

Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
Wed Jan 19 00:46:00 GMT 2000


Gady Kozma <gady@math.tau.ac.il> said:
> The following program must be inserted exactly as is, even removing an
> empty line will cause the bug to disappear. name the program ..\b.cpp
> (note the backslash!) and try to compile it. It will complain about an
> "unknown escape sequence \b". I'm not sure if it's a preprocessor or a
> compiler bug, but it's wrong.

Are you sure there are no extraneous control characters in those "empty"
lines?
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