Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: MSC 5.0 Bug Fix?? (Simple..)
Message-ID: <1988Feb17.171813.15472@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <11739@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 17-Feb-88 17:18:06 EST

> Compiler  apparently does not like eof markers that are at the end of
> the last line in a file.  Error c1004 results. Putting a cr-lf at the
> end of the file solved the problem.

Compiler is doing it right, although the complaint is perhaps undesirably
cryptic.  X3J11:  "A source file that is not empty shall end in a new-line
character."  (Page 6, line 38, 11 Jan 1988 draft)
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