Exception when running with JSHint 2.5.8

[manderson23]

I tried using JSHint 2.5.8 (using jshint-rhino.js) with the jshintSrc option and get the following exception

org.mozilla.javascript.EvaluatorException: illegal character
    at org.mozilla.javascript.DefaultErrorReporter.runtimeError(DefaultErrorReporter.java:77)
    at org.mozilla.javascript.DefaultErrorReporter.error(DefaultErrorReporter.java:64)
    at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.addError(Parser.java:188)
    at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.addError(Parser.java:166)
    at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.addError(Parser.java:162)
    at org.mozilla.javascript.TokenStream.getToken(TokenStream.java:829)
    at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.peekToken(Parser.java:296)
    at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.parse(Parser.java:524)
    at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.parse(Parser.java:502)
    at org.mozilla.javascript.Context.compileImpl(Context.java:2350)
    at org.mozilla.javascript.Context.compileReader(Context.java:1296)
    at org.mozilla.javascript.Context.compileReader(Context.java:1268)
    at org.mozilla.javascript.Context.evaluateReader(Context.java:1107)
    at com.philmander.jshint.JsHintRunner.lint(JsHintRunner.java:166)
    at com.philmander.jshint.JsHintAntTask.execute(JsHintAntTask.java:87)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:390)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:411)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1368)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1251)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:809)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109)