Strange GCC error: expected unqualified-id before ‘OTHER’ token

http://www.mr-edd.co.uk/blog/unqualified_id_before_other

Strange GCC error: expected unqualified-id before ‘OTHER’ token

[28th January 2011]

A brief interlude in the undo/redo series. Just posting this here so that Google can index the answer.

Today, we were seeing a strange error coming from one of our source files when compiled with Apple's g++ 4.0.1:

error: expected unqualified-id before ‘OTHER’ token

The problem here is that the file has a byte order mark, which g++ doesn't seem to like (at least this not flavour of g++, anyway).

If you happen to be using Vim, this should fix it, I think:

:setlocal nobomb
 :w