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From: kirchner@informatik.uni-kl.de (Reinhard Kirchner)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: DOS gcc (dj1bin) problems, malformed input file error
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Date: 1 Mar 91 11:42:47 GMT
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From article <61762@masscomp.westford.ccur.com>, by bobg@masscomp.westford.ccur.com (Bob Getz):
> 
> Hello, netlanders;
> 
> I recently got the GNU C++ for DOS via ftp from grape.....
> 
> I tried to compile a very simple test program and got the following:
> 
> 	e:\gcc test.cpp
> 	ld: malformed input file (not rel or archive) test.cpp
> 	e:\>
> 
A friend of mine tried the gcc and he told me:

Source files MUST NOT HAVE Control-Z at their end.

This maz be the reason for the error above.

This is a real foolish problem in such a tremendous package. Control-Z
is standard from many editors, the authors should have checked this.

Reinhard Kirchner
Univ. Kaiserslautern, Germany
kirchner@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de