From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: parse error
Date: 22 Dec 1999 23:48:28 -0800
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Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net> writes:

> Wes Henwood wrote:
> > 
> > What is a parse error?  If I try to compile C programs with DJGPP, that
> > compile normally on other compilers, I get this error.
> 
> It means that you have used syntax which is not legal.  Your other
> compilers are using ESP if they compile your code.

Not necessarily -- they could also be using extensions.  Think 

char far *foo;

And does this mean GCC is using ESP when it compiles the illegal
`asm("hlt")' or `inline int bar()' or `__attribute__'?

;-)
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Nate Eldredge
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