[URGENT] Getting warning: null character(s) ignored repeatedly

When I compile my driver.c in MVS. It runs fine... But when I do on my schools linux machine
after typing gcc driver.c it gives me a bunch of those messages. IE:

Code:

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driver.c:301:169: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:301:171: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:301:173: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:301:175: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:301:177: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:301:179: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:301:181: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:301:183: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:301:185: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:302:1: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:1: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:7: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:9: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:11: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:13: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:15: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:17: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:19: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:20: warning: null character(s) preserved in literal
driver.c:303:87: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:20: warning: unknown escape sequence: '\000'
driver.c:303:89: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:93: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:95: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:97: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:99: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:101: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:103: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:105: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:107: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:109: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:111: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:113: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:117: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:119: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:121: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:123: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:125: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:127: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:129: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:131: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:133: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:303:135: warning: null character(s) ignored

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And keeps going... The weird thing is that my driver.c only has 165 lines...

Plus, at the end, I get:
driver.c:329:2: warning: no newline at end of file

Which is not true because I checked my last line (which is 165), and it has a new line..

Please, any help on this?
I coded my project for 5 days straight, strees and everything
and when I submit I get this problem... =(

Transferring files from Windows to *nix can be interesting. Plenty of '\r' chars in there I imagine. There might be a "dos2unix" program either with your compiler or on the school machine that you can run on the source file to clean it up a bit for *nix, however, this might break it on some Windows text editors.

This might not be the cause of your issue, but it might be the first thing to do. You might want to examine the source file in a hex editor and see what shows up.

And btw, don't put "[URGENT]" in the topic. It makes me not want to reply to it since you're trying to put yourself in a higher priority than most of the other folks that need help, and it's a little arrogant in most circumstances.

Sorry about the [URGENT]... Didn't think of that.. =\

I've went thru my code to see if I find those \r chars and *nix and didnt find any

I have managed to hold my scroll bar to see what the first lines after gcc driver.c were, here they are:

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driver.c:1: error: stray '\377' in program
driver.c:1: error: stray '\376' in program
driver.c:1: error: stray '#' in program
driver.c:1:4: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:1:6: warning: null character(s) ignored
driver.c:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'n'

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And my first line of driver.c is a simple #include <stdio.h>
=\

Use a hex editor of some sort.

How do I use a text editor? And which one to get? =\

Hex editor, not text editor.

If you're really stuck, you could try running this on your source code, although if you could run this, you probably could run your code as well.

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        int c;
        FILE *fIn;
       
        if(argc < 2)
        {
                fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <file>\n", argv[0]);
                return 1;
        }
       
        fIn = fopen(argv[1], "rb");
        if(fIn == NULL)
        {
                fprintf(stderr, "Error opening file \"%s\"\n", argv[1]);
                return 2;
        }
       
        while((c = fgetc(fIn)) != EOF)
        {
                printf("%#02x ", c);
        }
        fclose(fIn);
       
        return 0;
}

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Then again, it all matters how you handle it and transfer it.

Anyway... something like this:

Code:

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./a.out driver.c | more

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It should spit out every char in hexadecimal format.

Woah.. I got lots of hexes!

But now, what do I do? What do those hexes tell me?
What did you want me to look for?

Well, let's try skipping the problem, since you proved you can transfer a program and get it to run.

Whatever you did to get this program to work, do it on your source code. Something like.... Copy and paste it to notepad and save it. Then take that copy that you saved and transfer that over to your Linux machine. If that works, you're fine.

If that doesn't work (which I think it will work), then we have to study whatever this program I gave you spit out. Paste the first few lines of it, but again, only if you can't transfer the file.

I've done that first option before...

I grabbed the first few lines of hexes (without spaces) and pasted into this hex to ascii converter (http://www.dolcevie.com/js/converter.html)

By plugging this in:

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0xff0xfe0x23000x69000x6e000x63000x6c000x75000x64000x65000x20000x3c000x73000x74000x64000x69000x6f000x2e000x68000x3e000xd000xa000x2300

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I got this:

Code:

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?????#??i??n??c??l??u??d??e?? ??<??s??t??d??i??o??.??h??>???????#?

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So is this how my program is being read? =O

WHAT DO I DOOOOOO! NOOOOOESSS

Oooo snap! I got it...

I actually did what you told me, paste it to notepad! ;D

I didn't tried that before, but now it works ;D
Just have some simple warnings, but those I can take care of.

Thanks for lighting my day mister!

Much <3

Lessons that should be learned from this:

1. Watch out for transferring of files from one platform to another.
2. Don't say you've done something if you haven't. ;)

Have fun with your assignment.