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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: strange compiler bug
Keywords: compiler, i386
Message-ID: <12564@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Apr 90 18:24:04 GMT
References: <1064@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Followup-To: comp.bugs.sys5
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1064@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl> wsinpdb@lso.win.tue.nl (Paul de Bra) writes:
>When compiling metafont on a 386, using the AT&T (development system 4.1.6)
>c-compiler, I get bogus errors like this:
>"mf2.c", line 1811: illegal character: 043 (octal)
>"mf2.c", line 1811: cannot recover from earlier errors: goodbye!

Since 043 is a '#' character, I suspect the source code is attempting
to use the ANSI-C stringizing or pasting features, which generally
aren't supported by older compilers.  Look on line 1811 of mf2.c and
see how it's trying to use the '#' character..