SOFPJF@VM.UOGUELPH.CA (Peter Jaspers-Fayer) (06/05/91)
I know this has already been discussd (with FORTRAN), but after having sweated this one out for about an hour, I'd like to relate this war story in case someone else should be so unlucky (and in case someone at SGI is "listening"): I have this C program that writes some messy PostScript. I was testing it, found a bug, removed a "printf", and attempted to re-compile: ugen: internal : line 82 : build.p, line 1740 unexpected u-code it sez. Whattheheckizzat? Say WHAT? Line 82 is no where near my change. Quick, put that printf back! To no avail. In trying to "vi" the .PS file I spooted this strange error message which started me on the right track. A long while later, I finally found in SYSLOG: unix: dks0d1s0 (/): Out of space Similar messages appeared in my (iconified - tsk) console window. Seems psview left some crud in /tmp, and so... 1) The above compiler message is not too informative (Hello SGI?) 2) Is there a way to "open" and "pop" a hidden or iconified wsh window whenever there is any output to it? /PJ __o -\<, ......O/ O SofPJF@VM.UoGuelph.Ca
davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B.Anderson) (06/06/91)
In article <9106051132.aa28547@VGR.BRL.MIL> SOFPJF@VM.UOGUELPH.CA (Peter Jaspers-Fayer) writes: [stuff deleted from various places to shorten the reply] >I have this C program that writes some messy PostScript. I was testing >it, found a bug, removed a "printf", and attempted to re-compile: > >ugen: internal : line 82 : build.p, line 1740 > unexpected u-code >A long while later, I finally found in SYSLOG: >unix: dks0d1s0 (/): Out of space Two problems with the compiler back-end tools (ugen, as1, uopt): 1) They never report file i/o problems helpfully (as the example above demonstrates). 2) Problem reports tend to be a confusing mixture of information for the user and for the tool-maintainers. In 4.0 the ugen messages have been made slightly clearer (in many cases) but no one had time to do the rather large amount of work that would be needed to really *fix* the problems. Sorry. We will fix these problems in some future release. [ David B. Anderson Silicon Graphics (415)335-1548 davea@sgi.com ] [``What could possibly go wrong?'' --Calvin `` Whenever you ask that, my tail gets all bushy.'' --Hobbes ]