Re: RH6.0 C compiler doesn't recognize "\"

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:53:05 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, WANG,YIDING (HP-SanJose,ex1) wrote:

> The C compiler in RH6.0 (Linux 2.2.5-15) doesn't like back slash "\" in the
> header file for the continued lines. Does anyone know how to make this
> compiler take this standard "\" as acceptible symbol for continued lines?
>
> Many thank!
>

It's the gcc compiler. When it doesn't like '\' it generally means that
there are additional characters (tabs or spaces) after the '\'.

#define PRINT\
puts("Hello world!")

main()
{
PRINT;
}

xxx.c:3: warning: missing white space after `#define PRINT'
xxx.c:4: parse error before string constant
xxx.c: In function `main':
xxx.c:9: stray '\' in program

Just make sure that the '\' is the last character on the line and
it will work just fine.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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