title: QtCreator: a big lot of stray errors
body: <p>Project was doing fine, running fine, compiling fine. Until some seemingly random time it stopped being fine.</p>
  
  <p>At the moment I'm getting around 200 stray errors:</p>
  
  <pre><code>./new:4: error: stray '\376' in program
  ./new:4: error: stray '\377' in program
  ./new:5: error: stray '\376' in program
  ./new:5: error: stray '\377' in program
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>From reading other posts it seems I have some bad characters in my code which I cannot see. So I emptied the whole file I was working on, but no luck. This error persists whatever I do.</p>
  
  <p>Also, when compiling main.cpp (which it does first), it first and foremost includes #include , which is the start of the chain of "from 'file'" messages. This means it didn't really parsed much of main.cpp yet but gets borked from reading internal Qt files?</p>
  
  <p>I'm totally gazing in the dark here, what could this possible be, and how would I resolve this?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you!</p>
  
  <p>I'm using Qt 4.7.2, GCC 4.5.0 and Win7.</p>