From: chaos AT stuck DOT com
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Subject: Internal environment error ?? - need help !
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 13:27:15 +0100
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Hi,

	I'd very appreciated some hint what's wrong when I tried to 
compile under gcc 2.8.1(bin utils 2.71, libs 2.01) some asm sources and 
got error messages like
..Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character valued 0xfffffffa
and compiling has stoped. I figured out that the problem is in using of 
line comments quoted by hash character('#') and when in comments are used 
some characters from upper ASCII table(e.g. 178). AS don't ignore 
contents of comments and treats rest of comment following this char as a 
new command line. But what I figured out further and what wonders me, 
when I decrease number of environment variables THE SAME sources are 
compiled without problems. So I tried to enlarge environment space upto
16kB but I got the same errors (*sigh*). All the sources contains 
hundreds of this comments(wrote in Japan) and I'm realy lazy to create
some utility to erase them.
	This annoys me very much and what I wish to know if somebody 
already solved this problem and could me help if I shall change or 
add or remove some internal variables(f.E. in specs file) to force AS
ignore contents of comments or shall to wait for another version of gcc
with this bug removed.

		Thanx!

			Flame soft inc. =+---

> tested in MS-Dos 6.22 and 7.0(within W95)
> environment variables  PATH=c:\djgpp\bin;e:\dos;...
  DJGPP=c:/djgpp/djgpp.env	{ tried backslashes too }
  BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 T300
  MIDI=
- thats all folks, no other variables, has helped removing MIDI&BLASTER 
  vars
- AS behaves very weird! ---