[comp.os.vms] TPU compile failures

ewilts%Ins.MRC.AdhocNet.CA%Stasis.MRC.AdhocNet.CA%UNCAEDU.@CORNELLC.CCS.CORNELL.EDU.BITNET (Ed Wilts) (06/20/88)

I am having a WEIRD problem compiling large (> 4000 lines, plus EVESECINI ).
The compilation step supersedes all the procedures are then will terminate
with a COMPILEFAIL message.  There are NO errors in the source code.
This can be verified by compiling each module individually.  The line
number coming back from the compilation is bogus (apparently).  Although
all the procedures are said to be superseded, most them are undefined.
This appears, to me anyway, to be a bug in TPU.  Has anybody else run
accross this strangeness?  We are running VMS 4.6.
        .../Ed

gregg@a.cs.okstate.edu (Gregg Wonderly) (06/27/88)

Ed Wilts writes:
> I am having a WEIRD problem compiling large (> 4000 lines, plus EVESECINI ).
> The compilation step supersedes all the procedures are then will terminate
> with a COMPILEFAIL message.  There are NO errors in the source code.
> This can be verified by compiling each module individually.  The line
> number coming back from the compilation is bogus (apparently).  Although
> all the procedures are said to be superseded, most them are undefined.
> This appears, to me anyway, to be a bug in TPU.  Has anybody else run
> accross this strangeness?  We are running VMS 4.6.
>         .../Ed

I have had this happen to me, and found it to be associated with a missing
semi-colon on an ENDPROCEDURE.  Typically the ENDPROCEDURE seems to be followed
by something other than PROCEDURE.

Gregg Wonderly
Mathematics Dept. Oklahoma State University

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