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Bug #8858 Mac line endings cause error message with '?'
Submitted: 2001-01-23 13:21 UTC Modified: 2001-04-27 21:57 UTC
From: davidv at angliaed dot co dot uk Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Reproducible Crash
PHP Version: 4.0.4pl1 OS: Linux/Apache
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2001-01-23 13:21 UTC] davidv at angliaed dot co dot uk 
If a PHP source file is saved with Mac line endings (each line ends with character 13 (0x0D) only) then any comment that starts with // and ends with a question mark such as:

// Comment?

will cause an error message to be output to the browser:

Parse error: parse error in /home/www/php/admin/syncdb.php on line 1

Note that the ? is NOT at the end of line 1 but can be anywhere in the script.

With either Unix line endings (0x0A) or PC line endings (0x0D + 0x0A) the problem does not occur.

The system is running apache 1.3.14 on a Linux (RedHat 6.0) i586 server.

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 [2001-04-27 21:57 UTC] elixer@php.net 
This is not a bug in PHP.  If you are running your scripts on a Unix platform they must be terminated by a '\n' (0x0A).
 
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