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Ketil Z Malde wrote:
> I have a bunch of sources that were written on PCs, thus with CRLF
> line termination.  I want to compile them on a Unix system, or
> specifically, with GCC on Linux, which uses LF line termination.
> 
> Now all this is just fine and dandy, except some of the sources
> contain \CRLF line continuation, which GCC interprets as a stray \CR
> at the end of the line, and consequentially, crash and burn.
> 
> I've been unsuccessfully toying with macro defining the problem away,
> and I've been searching for cpp options to inhibit this - I'd rather
> not mess up the original sources.  Surely, somebody must have had this
> problem before, and solved it somehow?

You pretty much have to rewrite the source code to fix this.
One way would be to write a Makefile rule that looks something like
this:

.c.o:
	tr -d '\015' <$*.c >$*.nocr.c
	cc -c -o $*.o $*.nocr.c
	rm -f $*.nocr.c

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