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Guest · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:40 am

i'm sorry if i'm asking something dummy....

Guest · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:43 am

Note: i removed that line and code compiled successfully. No problem but i posted because i can't understand why.

Humberto · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:43 am

It is a very trivial error to think that it is a bug. Cool

But you know...

Are you running a new version ? Wich? Did you tested with another version ?
If you had selected line number option in the editor, does the compiler point to
the same line/column where the error is ?

Keep well,

Humberto

Ttelmah · Guest

Usually, this happens when there is an invisible 'non printable' character on the line after the '\'. I have seen the same behaviour in the past from other 'C' compilers for this reason. It would have been interesting to step along the line, one character at a time with the cursor, and see if two steps were needed to advance to the next character at this point.

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Guest · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:01 am

after computer restarted, and of course program restarted, i typed that line again, this time no error.

now i don't know why. i didn't try to retype it before restart. maybe an illegal char removed when i deleted that line. maybe restart solved problem. interesting.

thanks.

Guest · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:05 am

next time, when something occurs like this one, i will backup the files first.

Eduardo__ · Joined: 23 Nov 2011 Posts: 197 Location: Brazil

I Had had the same problem!

My CCS PCH compiller is V4.124, together MPLAB V8.73.

I struggled about 2 hours with this problem, but I found no direct solution.

My lucky was that I´ve had backups. So I unpacked last working backup and replaced the 2 .c files that I were modified. Then, it worked well again...

In another words... it was very strange. I suppose something wrong with MPLAB project file or even with some of the old files that the compiler built.

That´s my story.. Googd luck people,.. and... make backups regularly... it´s not the first time it happens to me.

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Ttelmah · Joined: 11 Mar 2010 Posts: 19539

I think you will find it has something to do with Windows, fonts, and international mapping. I can generate _two_ different backslash characters on my system. The normal 0x5C (reverse solidus), and 0xFF3C (full width reverse solidus). To generate this, I have to have 'caps lock' enabled, then type the standard '\' character. If I type this, then the compiler complains as described. With the font I use, they appear identical....

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