On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Jason Hsu <jhsu802701@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How can comment lines be misinterpreted by a compiler? =A0Comment lines
> are SUPPOSED to be ignored by the compiler. =A0What went wrong here?
>
> More importantly, how do you tell if a compiler is misinterpreting
> your source code? =A0My code looked fine in MPLAB, Geany, and Leafpad.
> I don't know how I'm supposed to tell if I'm relying on editing tools
> that don't show me what the compiler sees.

It's not the comment lines, it's the EOL marker which is handled
differently between Unix and DOS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline

But like I said earlier, you had a very weird case where you had the
CR character, but not the LF!  I noticed that you mentioned earlier
you were doing this in Linux under WINE... perhaps it was a bug in the
cut and paste between those systems.

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