garbled messages containing "â"

Daniel Berlin dberlin@dberlin.org
Wed Jul 19 01:21:00 GMT 2006


Patrik Jonsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My gcc (4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)) recently started garbling its
> output by inserting "â" instead of names of routines, arguments, etc.
> Typical example:
> 
> blitz-fits.h: In function â:
> blitz-fits.h:93: error: there are no arguments to â that depend on a
> template parameter, so a declaration of â must be available
> blitz-fits.h:93: error: (if you use â, G++ will accept your code, but
> allowing the use of an undeclared name is deprecated)
> blitz-fits.h:96: error: cannot convert â to â for argument â to â
> 
> Needless to say, this makes it even harder than normal to figure out
> what's wrong with the program... ;-)
> 
> This is on a Fedora Core 4 x86_64 machine. Does anyone have any idea why
> this is happening and what to do about it?

does doing "export LANG=C" before running gcc fix it?


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> /Patrik Jonsson
> 
> 
> 
> 



More information about the Gcc-help mailing list