strange compiler bug

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1064 at tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl> wsinpdb at lso.win.tue.nl (Paul de Bra) writes:
>When compiling metafont on a 386, using the AT&T (development system 4.1.6)
>c-compiler, I get bogus errors like this:
>"mf2.c", line 1811: illegal character: 043 (octal)
>"mf2.c", line 1811: cannot recover from earlier errors: goodbye!

Since 043 is a '#' character, I suspect the source code is attempting
to use the ANSI-C stringizing or pasting features, which generally
aren't supported by older compilers.  Look on line 1811 of mf2.c and
see how it's trying to use the '#' character..