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From: andy@CSVAX.CALTECH.EDU (Andy Fyfe)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: line number on error message in gcc 1.33
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Date: 14 Feb 89 19:19:32 GMT
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Gcc reports the error about the missing quote on the last line where
a string appears, and not where the unterminated string appears.

% cat test.c
foo()
{
    printf("one);               /* no closing quote */
    printf("two");
    printf("three");
    printf("four");
    printf("five");             /* error reported on this line */
}
% gcc -c test.c
test.c:7: unterminated string or character constant
 7872 Exit 1               gcc -c test.c