From: Madis.Kaal@f30.n490.z2.fidonet.org (Madis Kaal) Organization: FidoNet node 2:490/30 - Mailbox-CG, Tallinn Subject: Weird error message The personal computer ISKRA-1030 (made in USSR, supposed to be XT clone) can generate an error message: "Write protect error reading device CON" From: ben@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Ben Verwer) Organization: Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Applied Physics Subject: No warnings pleaaaaaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee The stardent compiler has a -w option: no warnings. ben [1] cc -w idontwantwarnings.c "idontwantwarnings.c", line 1: warning: 4 warnings suppressed by no warn option ben [2] Some of the better error messages from Apple's MPW compiler, from a posting by Bruce Hoult on comp.sys.mac.programmer: "String literal too long (I let you have 512 characters, that's 3 more than ANSI said I should)" "...And the lord said, `lo, there shall only be case or default labels inside a switch statement'" "a typedef name was a complete surprise to me at this point in your program" "`Volatile' and `Register' are not miscible" "This struct already has a perfectly good definition" "Only one parameter per register please " "type in (cast) must be scalar; ANSI 3.3.4; page 39, lines 10-11 (I know you don't care, I'm just trying to annoy you)" "This array has no size, and that's bad" "Huh ?" "can't go mucking with a `void *'" "we already did this function" "The target of this goto is a label in a block that has an automatic variable with an initializer" "This label is the target of a goto from outside of the block containing this label AND this block has an automatic variable with an initializer AND your window wasn't wide enough to read this whole error message" "Call me paranoid but finding `/*' inside this comment makes me suspicious" "This function has an explicit return type and deserves a return value" "You are comparing two structures that have holes in them" "Too many errors on one line (make fewer)" "Symbol table full - fatal heap error; please go buy a RAM upgrade from your local Apple dealer" "Trailing comma not permitted in enum definition. (This time I'm letting you off with a warning)" See, a computer with good manners, and people are saying that the internet is going down hill, HA: > From MailerDaemon@philips.de Fri Nov 10 13:42:06 1995 > Subject: Returned mail: Remote protocol error > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > Connected to mailhost.trt-philips.fr: > >>> DATA > <<< 550 you could say goodbye > 554 ... Remote protocol error: Connection > reset by peer during final wait with mailhost.trt-philips.fr The FORTRAN V compiler for the UNIVAC 1108 once spit out the following diagnostic: THE ABOVE ASSIGNMENT STATEMENT IS REDUNDANT AND HAS BEEN DELETED. This occurred when through some fluke, most likely a card reader stuttering, an arithmetic assignment statement was duplicated on adjacent cards. Bonus message: In UNIVAC's old (and I do mean OLD) DOD COBOL, I once saw the diagnostic THE ABOVE REFERENCE IS NUGATORY Extra bonus: Then there was the MAD compiler (incorporated as part of the U of Maryland's combined two-language compiler, RALPH -- compiled both FORTRAN and MAD, and allowed one to switch languages mid-program)... If you made a sufficiently large number of errors, you received a large portrait of Alfred E. Neumann.