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From: Hartmut Welpmann <hartmut DOT welpmann AT gmx DOT de>
To: Gerry Reno <grenoml AT yahoo DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: gcc simple program crashing
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 13:24:29 +0200
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On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 01:00:17 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>  I wrote, compiled and ran a very simple program today that is
>producing the weirdest results.  I began googling the errors and came
>across multiple accounts of people experiencing the exact same
>behavior. The program is just a simple dos/unix line termination
>converter:
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>
>int main (int argc, char *argv[])
>{
>  int ch;
>  while ( (ch = getc(stdin)) && ! feof(stdin) ) {
>    if (ch == '\n') {
>      putc('\n',stdout);
>      putc('\r',stdout);
>    } else putc(ch,stdout);
>  }
>}
>
>gcc -o filter.exe -c filter.c
>
>The errors:
>./filter.exe 8: Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution

[...]

>Anyone know what is causing this behavior?  

You try to execute an object file, just remove the -c switch.

>Another poster with this
>problem was using g++ (GCC) 3.1.1 20020718 (prerelease):
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-07/msg01598.html

If you had read the whole thread, you might have found the answer
yourself...

Regards,
Hartmut

-- 
Hartmut Welpmann

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