[Tinyos-devel] special characters in @author causes "make micaz" to fail

[Elias Weingärtner]

Folks,

I just came across a bug in tinyos 2.0: If I use special characters,
particularly german umlauts such as ä within the @author field, the
wiring check fails if a make is invoked for micaz with "make micaz".

The error message looks like this:

[Fatal Error] :4857:238: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at net.tinyos.nesc.wiring.WiringCheck.checkWiring(WiringCheck.java:112)
        at net.tinyos.nesc.wiring.WiringCheck.main(WiringCheck.java:148)
make: *** [exe0] Error 1

If I remove the characters in @author, it works. Also, if those chars
appear outside @author, it also works...

Regards,

Elias Weingärtner
Ulm University, Germany.