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Started by Barry Shein
Tue, 17 Jun 1986 21:27
Re: weird C-compiler error message
Author: Barry Shein
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1986 21:27
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1986 21:27
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) guy@sun.UUCP writes ) ... if your users are aware that "compiler error" really means "bring this ) message, along with the source code, to your local support person", ... )) tanner@ki4pv.UUCP (Tanner Andrews) ))I must take some exception to this. Your local support person is too busy to ))tell 50 people that "compiler error: gork blunge snarf" means "formal not ))declared on argument list". Well, you could always do what the RT11V2 Fortran did on a compiler error: Print out an entire form to be filled out with questions, dashed lines etc on the user's console (real useful on our TEK4010!) with mailing instructions (no joke.) The point is, a compiler bug is a compiler bug, if it knew it was ill because of "formal not declared on argument list" I am sure the compiler writer would have been glad to have included the error message. More likely it just trapped a memory fault or something disasterous like that regardless of what caused it, you're just smarter than the compiler for the moment. Guy is right. -Barry Shein, Boston University
weird C-compiler error message - real solution+
Author: Curtis Jackson
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1986 01:54
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1986 01:54
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First of all, a very nice guy from Texas called me with what has to be the correct answer for "why the hell did the compiler say 'bad arg temp'?" Mail to me if you want to know; if there's enough interest I'll post. Secondly: >) guy@sun.UUCP writes >) ... if your users are aware that "compiler error" really means "bring this >) message, along with the source code, to your local support person", ... [Barry Shein also seconded this] And I third it; why else did I fill my recently-written compiler (pidc) with messages of the form "Compiler error -- contact pidc support personnel." Unfortunately, I *am* the "pidc support personnel".... :-( ;-) -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd allegra ]!burl!rcj ...![ ihnp4 cbosgd akgua watmath ]!clyde!rcj
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