PHP 4.0 Bug #8858: Mac line endings cause error message with '?'

From: davidv@angliaed.co.uk Operating system: Linux/Apache PHP version: 4.0.4pl1 PHP Bug Type: Reproduceable crash Bug description: Mac line endings cause error message with '?' 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. -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8858&edit=1