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Re: gcc compile problem: error: stray \168 in program
Tim McDaniel <tmcd <at> panix.com> writes:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, grip <Chandramohan.USecure <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2. Output from od- tx1 -a test.c
> >
> > ---------------------BEGIN-------------------------------
> > 0000000 23 69 6e 63 6c 75 64 65 20 3c 73 74 64 69 6f 2e
> > # i n c l u d e sp < s t d i o .
>
> THank you for providing that. I've deleted spaces so that the text
> representations line up under the hex representations (why od doesn't
> do that I don't know; nor do I know how to make od do that).
Making od align output is easy - upgrade to cygwin 1.7 and coreutils 7.0, where
you will then get my upstream patch that does just that ;) (and no, I won't
port coreutils 7.0 to cygwin 1.5; I'm already swamped trying to get coreutils
7.1 and bash 4.0 built).
>
> They really ARE umlauts in Latin-1, hex a8 shown above. Why any other
> program displays them as double quotes is beyond me: od apparently
> strips the high bit to display them (0xa8 becomes 0x28, which is "(");
> DOS codepage 437 would show an inverted question mark.
That's because you used -a, instead of -c. od --help confirms that -a
intentionally drops the high bit, producing ambiguous output:
-a same as -t a, select named characters, ignoring high-order bit
-b same as -t o1, select octal bytes
-c same as -t c, select ASCII characters or backslash escapes
...
a named character, ignoring high-order bit
c ASCII character or backslash escape
--
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer
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