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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Strange probs when moving from v1 to v2
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 13:38:28 CDT
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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> v2 beta ... one very interesting (and frustrating problem).
> parse error line x before character 032

This is due to a bug in the beta 1 libc, which didn't like CTRL-Z characters
as the end of file.  This is fixed in the libc of beta 2, but most of the
binaries didn't get rebuilt so the bug is still seen in any .exe file
older then the libc.a file.  Workaround: remove the ^Z's (they don't need
to be there) or rebuild GCC and all the utils.