[m-dev.] diff: fix tests in hard_coded for MSVC

[Ralph Becket]

>From Peter Ross on 14/02/2001 09:40:50
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:19:06AM +1100, Simon Taylor wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 04:58:17PM +0100, Peter Ross wrote:
> > > tests/hard_coded/exceptions/test_exceptions_func.m:
> > >     Remove the uneeded import of std_util, this avoids the
> > >     `std_util.m^M' problem mentioned in the previous test case.
> > 
> > Any idea what's causing this problem?
> > 
> > The reason for having test_bitset.m and bitset_tester.m as separate
> > files is that it is useful to be able to use bitset_tester.m as a
> > replacement for sparse_bitset.m to debug problems in sparse_bitset.m.
> > 
> It is obviously something to do with the fact that having an MSVC
> version of mercury compiler, but the cygwin tools as the build
> architecture can lead to files being produced in various different
> formats.  I however cannot work out where this particular ^M is coming
> from and why it only a problem with std_util.

I've had this problem before under Cygwin and it seems a tad spurious
to me.  Why is ^M an illegal character?  Surely it's just whitespace?

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Ralph Becket      |      MSR Cambridge      |      rbeck at microsoft.com 

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