Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 09:22:21 -1000
From: jthomas AT uhhacb DOT uhh DOT hawaii DOT edu (Jim Thomas)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:  Re: preprocessor cryptics

Pieter> I would like to post a hint for DJGPP users in case they encounter
Pieter> a compilation error of the kind (see the test program below for details):

Pieter>    c:/tmp/cc016065:1: parse error before `.'
Pieter>    c:/tmp/cc016065:305: malformatted character constant
....
Pieter> I don't know if this behaviour is specific for the DOS version of gcc
Pieter> since I only have an older version of gcc running on our HP-UX machine.
Pieter> I suspect however that this behaviour has shown up since the latest
Pieter> versions of gcc. Needless to say I prefer the more versatile message
Pieter> of gcc version 2.4.5.
....

The old error message shows up under gcc 2.5.7 on an old uVAX with Ultrix.
I used to get error messages like that with version 1.07 of go32 + whatever
gcc it had (it may have been 1.08?).  But the next version solved those
problems so I assumed they had been fixed.  Sometimes there was a
legitimate error (usually a C error rather than a preprocessor error,
though), but often the same file compiled fine on a Sun with gcc 2.?.  So
there at least was some difference specific to dgjpp.