On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Axel Freyn <axel-freyn@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:07:14PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 08/31/2011 11:53 AM, Avinash Sonawane wrote: >> > avinash@titanic:/Remastersys/Documents/Programs/c$ gcc dm.c -o dm >> > dm.c: In function ‘main’: >> > dm.c:17:1: error: stray ‘\302’ in program >> > dm.c:17:1: error: stray ‘\240’ in program >> >> >> Try >> >> >> LANG=C gcc dm.c -o dm >> > On my machine, that's not the problem. I think it's really an error in > the code: you have an illegal character hidden in the file: The first > space in line 17 is not a "space" but a "no-break space" from unicode. > (to make it worse, this character code is displayed as space by most > text editors....). > Just open the file, delete the first space in line 17 an replace it by a > true space and gcc will compile. > (Just for the record, VIM detects the character as "160, Hex 00a0, Oktal 240", > while a true space should be "32, Hex 20, Oktal 040"). > > HTH, > > Axel > Oh.... Really.. It worked after removing that 'fake space' n reinserting the true one in the code. But may I know how that "no-break space" got into my program as I didn't put it there. (Actually I was totally unaware of something like this.) By the way thanks for the clarification. -- Avinash Sonawane PICT Pune Facebook Twitter
