X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,MISSING_HEADERS,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:48:33 -0600 (CST) From: Tim McDaniel cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gcc compile problem: error: stray \168 in program In-Reply-To: <49A29E64.4060300@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <22145156.post@talk.nabble.com> <22156979.post@talk.nabble.com> <49A29E64.4060300@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Dave Korn wrote: > Nor do I, but let's see what's in that file: can you show us the > output you get from running "od -tx1 test.c" on your testcase > please, and tell us exactly what editor you used. I personally prefer "od -tx1 -a test.c": it should add ASCII versions of each character, to make it faster to find particular positions. > Also, type "od -tx1" at a command line without any filename > following it, type a quote mark, then press enter, then Ctrl+D, and > show us what that says. Being ultra-precise: type od -tx1 at a command line, and then press enter. That will start the "octal dump" program. The quote mark (meaning ") and enter is the one line of input. -- Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/