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From: skinner@saturn.ucsc.edu (Robert Skinner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: cfront bug
Keywords: well it should be a bug
Message-ID: <7813@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 3 Jun 89 23:30:27 GMT
Organization: U.C. Santa Cruz, CIS/CE.
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I have seen cfront die horribly (sometimes not even dumping core)
when it encounters control characters in its input.  Will 2.0
at least be able to handle this more gracefully, and give an
error message before it commits suicide?

(No, I don't intentionally put control characters in my source
code.  This happened to me the first time when a bug in job control
put a stray character in my source.  vi didn't display the offending
character, and if it wasn't for 'cat -v', I might >still< be 
trying to find the problem.)

Robert Skinner
skinner@saturn.ucsc.edu