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From: mdb@kosciusko.esd.3com.com (Mark D. Baushke)
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Subject: Re: Char consts/gcc-cpp
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Date: 9 Dec 89 16:44:15 GMT
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On 9 Dec 89 02:33:45 GMT, steck@ERIC.CCS.NORTHEASTERN.EDU (Paul Steckler) said:

Paul> Here is a bug in gcc 1.35's preprocessor that I found:

Paul gives a description of /usr/include/sundev/vuid_event.h having a
single apostrophe in a #ifdef block which is thrown away by non-ansi C
compilers and suggests this may be a bug in GCC.

Paul> Should the preprocessor be doing that level of lexical analysis this
Paul> soon?

Yes.

> /usr/include/sundev/vuid_event.h:39: unterminated character constant

Paul> If this has been fixed in 1.36, I apologize, I haven't installed it yet.

GCC is doing the right thing. That include file (and others) need to
be converted to ANSI C standards. A script which does the conversion
for you has been provided in all recent version of GCC called 'fixincludes'.

You should use fixincludes generate the 'private' gcc include
directory which is searched before /usr/include is searched.

Enjoy!
-- 
Mark D. Baushke
mdb@ESD.3Com.COM