Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 06:11:42 +0100 (BST) From: George Foot To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Parse errors In-Reply-To: <703q7p$bus$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 silkwodj AT my-dejanews DOT com wrote: > C:\Work\pcx >gcc pcxview3.cc pcx.o myscrn1.o myscrn2.cc -o pcxview.exe > pcxview3.cc:71: parse error at end of input. > > Now my pcxview3.cc file has only 70 lines in it! What's also baffling is the > file pcx.o was compiled a couple of weeks ago, but now I can't compile it > again. I get the same kind of error message for the end of its 276 lines of > code. It probably is a missing brace; look again out for mismatched braces. Do you indent your code? That helps you to keep track of the brace depth. A trick you can use (nasty!) is to write `bleah();' at the end of your file, on line 71. Assuming you don't have a function by that name (change it if you do), gcc should barf on this and tell you what function it thinks it is in at the moment. This should give you some clue as to where the missing brace is. A problem could be the fact that a gcc extension allows you to define one function within another. You can disable this by passing `-ansi' or `-traditional', but both of these may make your code fail to compile for other reasons. Another possibility is that you have an unterminated string or character constant -- i.e. missing " or '. If the problem is any of these, changing the order of functions probably won't do too much. Another way to find the problem is to insert an extra closing brace at the end. This isn't a solution yet! The code should now compile (possibly with other errors). If so, move the brace back in the file, putting it just before the last function. Keep doing this until you get a parse error before your newly inserted brace; at that stage you know that the missing closing brace is in fact in the next function, after this new parse error occured. -- george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk xu do tavla fo la lojban -- http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/lojban.html