From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27391 invoked by alias); 26 Jan 2004 17:02:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 27351 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2004 17:02:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.9) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Jan 2004 17:02:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 20400 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2004 17:02:48 -0000 Received: from taltos.codesourcery.com (zack@66.92.218.83) by mail.codesourcery.com with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 26 Jan 2004 17:02:48 -0000 Received: by taltos.codesourcery.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:02:47 -0800 From: "Zack Weinberg" To: heitkamp@ameritech.net Cc: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: error: stray '\' in program References: Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:02:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Fred Heitkamp's message of "Mon, 26 Jan 2004 08:50:40 -0500 (EST)") Message-ID: <87fze2tzgo.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg03290.txt.bz2 List-Id: Fred Heitkamp writes: > When compiling euler-1.60.6.tar.gz. > I've seen this while compiling several other programs as well. The relevant lines of the provided metaps.i are static char setclipmacro[]= "/setclip {\ngsave" /y2 exch def\n /x2 exch def\n /y1 exch def\n /x1 exch def\n newpath x1 y1 moveto x2 y1 lineto x2 y2 lineto x1 y2 lineto closepath clip\n} def\n";" I don't know what happened here but this cannot ever have been syntactically valid C. zw