On Fri, 23 Feb 1996 04:55:50 GMT 
 is@Beverly.Rhein.DE wrote:

 > : .../../i386/locore.s:148: unterminated character constant
 > : .../../i386/locore.s:453: unterminated character constant
 > : .../../i386/locore.s:1547: unterminated character constant
 > : .../../i386/locore.s:1576: unterminated character constant
 > : .../../i386/locore.s:1578: unterminated character constant
 > etc.
 > 
 > The unterminated character constants com from the use of perfectly legal
 > (to as) ' signs in perfectly legal as comments, which aren't cpp
 > comments und thus are seen by cpp. which complains.
 > 
 > I fixed a bunch of these when switching compilers by changing the
 > wording, e.g instead of
 > 
 > | this isn't nice anymore
 > 
 > I wrote
 > 
 > | this is not nice anymore
 > 
 > Does anybody know if something got missed in the gcc upgrade?

This has been fixed in the tree, I think.  Try passing "-traditional-cpp".

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