error: stray '\' in program

[Zack Weinberg]

Nick Ing-Simmons <nick.ing-simmons@elixent.com> writes:

> Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk> writes:
>>Philipp Thomas wrote:-
>>
>>> * Gabriele Caracausi (gabriele@caracausi.it) [20030824 13:56]:
>>> 
>>> > I'm trying to recompile under linux GCC 3.3 sources but an error occurs:
>>> > 
>>> > regclass.c:78: stray '\' in program
>>> > 
>>> > but the line in regclass.c is:
>>> > static const char initial_fixed_regs[] = FIXED_REGISTERS;
>>> 
>>> Please see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html on how to report bugs.
>>
>>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?

Not with GCC 3.x.

zw