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Jonathan Juniman
05/28/2008 2:34 PM
post8533
Compiler chokes on backslashes   
I seem to be getting error messages like this one every place I have a macro that uses '\' to split the macro across 
multiple lines:

Multiple markers at this line
	-stray '\' in program
	-parse error before `.'

Anybody ever see this before, or know what to do about it?
Sean Boudreau(deleted)
05/28/2008 2:36 PM
post8534
Re: Compiler chokes on backslashes   
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 02:34:26PM -0400, Jonathan Juniman wrote:
> I seem to be getting error messages like this one every place I have a macro that uses '\' to split the macro across 
multiple lines:
> 
> Multiple markers at this line
> 	-stray '\' in program
> 	-parse error before `.'
> 
> Anybody ever see this before, or know what to do about it?

Make sure there's no whitespace after the \

-seanb
Jonathan Juniman
05/28/2008 2:39 PM
post8535
Re: Compiler chokes on backslashes   
Already did that. There is no whitespace. I just had a thought, though. These source files probably use DOS line 
termination. I'm gonna try dos2unix and see what happens.
Jonathan Juniman
05/28/2008 2:42 PM
post8536
Re: Compiler chokes on backslashes   
Yep, that's it. Looks like the compiler can handle <CR> characters but the preprocessor can't.

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