linux-kernel - 3.3: Compilation error "error: stray ‘\33’ in program"

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Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:52:46 +0100
From:	Peter Alfredsen <peter.alfredsen@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: 3.3: Compilation error "error: stray ‘\33’ in program"

Using the attached x86_64 .config generated by "make oldconfig", I'm
getting the following output:
loki linux-3.3-rc1 # make clean && make
  CLEAN   .
  CLEAN   .tmp_versions
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
  HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
  CC      kernel/bounds.s
  GEN     include/generated/bounds.h
  CC      arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s
In file included from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_64.c:5:0,
                 from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:27:
arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:1:1: error: stray ‘\33’ in program
arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:1:1: error: expected
expression before ‘[’ token
arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:1:52: error: invalid
suffix "m" on integer constant
<snip a zillion lines>
arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h:327:1: error: stray ‘\33’
in program
arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h:327:1: error: stray ‘\33’
in program
arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h:327:1: error: stray ‘\33’
in program
arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_64.c:4:13: warning: ‘syscalls_64’ defined
but not used
make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1
make: *** [prepare0] Error 2

Using the original .config from 3.2.5, I can compile 3.2.5 fine.
3.3-rc1 errors out as above, so the patch responsible must have come
from the initial merge.

/Peter

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