garbled messages containing 'ā'

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garbled messages containing 'ā'
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Subject:	garbled messages containing 'ā'
Group:	Gcc-help
From:	Patrik Jonsson
Date:	19 Jul 2006

Hi,

My gcc (4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)) recently started garbling its
output by inserting "ā" instead of names of routines, arguments, etc.
Typical example:

blitz-fits.h: In function ā:
blitz-fits.h:93: error: there are no arguments to ā that depend on a
template parameter, so a declaration of ā must be available
blitz-fits.h:93: error: (if you use ā, G++ will accept your code, but
allowing the use of an undeclared name is deprecated)
blitz-fits.h:96: error: cannot convert ā to ā for argument ā to ā

Needless to say, this makes it even harder than normal to figure out
what's wrong with the program... ;-)

This is on a Fedora Core 4 x86_64 machine. Does anyone have any idea why
this is happening and what to do about it?

Thanks,

/Patrik Jonsson