[fpc-devel] Unhelpful error message

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

I've just had a slight problem compiling Lazarus where FPC was reporting 
this:

main.pp(5001,1) Fatal: Syntax error, "BEGIN" expected but "shl" found

The reason was that I'd not spotted that Subversion had inserted a like like

<<<<< Mine:

preceding a function. Is this something that the compiler could detect 
and warn about?

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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