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From: shaman@mv.mv.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Subject: NetBSD and gcc...
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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 02:06:43 GMT
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Hello again. I am trying to compile some of the stuff that I did not
get on my distrubition (like news, gzip, taylor uucp) and am running
into an annoying problem.

I have NetBSD 0.9 (current) and GCC 2.4.5

Some of the .c files that I try and compile, I get an error to 
the effect of "Illegal operator: .size" on a line which is in the midle
of a comment block. The line is always numbered < 10.

Deleting the comment block, or adding code before it has no effect.
It only happens on some files, but always on those files.

A specific example. UUencode and UUdecode. The first 10 lines are identical
comments. Encode died on the above error. Decode compiled fine.

Any suggestions?

-coranth

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