* [9fans] once is enough: VOID
@ 2005-05-14 13:45 Brantley Coile
2005-05-14 18:21 ` Bruce Ellis
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Brantley Coile @ 2005-05-14 13:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
I just spent 20 minutes figuring out what the above warning meant.
The line number given in the warning is incorrect, so it took the 20
minutes before I noticed that I had used the keyword `void' twice for
a function type a few lines below the last line of the previous
function, which was the line in the warning message.
Hope this saves someone else their 20 minutes.
Brantley
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* Re: [9fans] once is enough: VOID
2005-05-14 13:45 [9fans] once is enough: VOID Brantley Coile
@ 2005-05-14 18:21 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-05-14 18:35 ` Brantley Coile
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Bruce Ellis @ 2005-05-14 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
One day I'll fix cc so it's diagnostics are more like those of cyntax.
A diagnostic should indicate the culprit, not where the parser
was when the semantic analysis was done.
Then again one day dumb-ass airline will show up with my luggage.
Consider yourself lucky. I spent half a day trying to work out what
a gcc diagnostic meant and eventually cracked open a six pack
and wrote the entire file again from scratch - discarding the first
attempt. Never did find out what the message meant.
brucee
On 5/14/05, Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com> wrote:
> I just spent 20 minutes figuring out what the above warning meant.
> The line number given in the warning is incorrect, so it took the 20
> minutes before I noticed that I had used the keyword `void' twice for
> a function type a few lines below the last line of the previous
> function, which was the line in the warning message.
>
> Hope this saves someone else their 20 minutes.
>
> Brantley
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] once is enough: VOID
2005-05-14 18:21 ` Bruce Ellis
@ 2005-05-14 18:35 ` Brantley Coile
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Brantley Coile @ 2005-05-14 18:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bruce.ellis, 9fans
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My favorite error message of all time was `unintelligent control
statment was output with diagnostic.' That was on the batch job
control on an CDC 18/20 ITOS system. It was years later that I
realized that my program had stopped without reading the last record
in the sysin and a data card was the next thing read by the batch
system. I had put two sentinel numbers as input instead of one. It
just couldn't figure out what to do with 99999 as a job control card.
The message should have been, `Hey stupid! What's 99999 supposed to
mean?'
Brantley
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From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] once is enough: VOID
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 04:21:29 +1000
Message-ID: <775b8d1905051411214f40e25c@mail.gmail.com>
One day I'll fix cc so it's diagnostics are more like those of cyntax.
A diagnostic should indicate the culprit, not where the parser
was when the semantic analysis was done.
Then again one day dumb-ass airline will show up with my luggage.
Consider yourself lucky. I spent half a day trying to work out what
a gcc diagnostic meant and eventually cracked open a six pack
and wrote the entire file again from scratch - discarding the first
attempt. Never did find out what the message meant.
brucee
On 5/14/05, Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com> wrote:
> I just spent 20 minutes figuring out what the above warning meant.
> The line number given in the warning is incorrect, so it took the 20
> minutes before I noticed that I had used the keyword `void' twice for
> a function type a few lines below the last line of the previous
> function, which was the line in the warning message.
>
> Hope this saves someone else their 20 minutes.
>
> Brantley
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