To: jerry AT jvdsys DOT textlitho DOT nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Assembler failed on compiler output 
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 94 16:18:53 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

> Today I installed 1.12m2 (until now I was running 1.11m5).
>
> When trying to compile the FSDB091A package -which compiled fine with
> 1.11m5- the following happened:
>
> gcc -I.. -I. -I- -O2 -g -Wformat -Wunused -DFULLSCR -c fullscr.c
> c:/TEMP/cca00076: Assembler message:
> c:/TEMP/cca00076:476:Error: Rest of the line ignored. First ignored character
> is '*'.

Did you also install bnu24bn.zip (Binutils)?  It seems you are using an
old as program.
Alternatively, the source might include inline assembly with comments.
I heard that something changed in this connection.