http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56581
Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |UNCONFIRMED Resolution|INVALID | Summary|seg fault |Segfault when reading | |source file which starts | |with a byte-order mark | |(-cpp works) Ever Confirmed|1 |0 --- Comment #7 from Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> 2013-03-11 10:51:32 UTC --- For completeness, the first line of the attachment starts with (od -x): 0000000 bbef 43bf 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 EF BB BF is the byte-order mark. (Followed by "C" and " ".) It works if one uses "-cpp" as, seemingly, libcpp supports this. I think we should consider supporting those BOM.