[comp.sys.mac.programmer] Listing of error number meanings

russw@Apple.COM (Russ Wetmore) (09/05/88)

In article <3852@bsu-cs.UUCP> mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
writes:
>I was wondering if someone could tell me what errors ID=1 and ID=3 mean.
>While your at it, maybe you can provide a list of all the errors (or at least
>the most common).

Here's a list of all of the "Dire Straits" errors:

; System Error Alert ID definitions

dsBusError      EQU  1	; bus error
dsAddressErr    EQU  2	; address error
dsIllInstErr    EQU  3	; illegal instruction error
dsZeroDivErr    EQU  4	; zero divide error
dsChkErr        EQU  5	; check trap error
dsOvflowErr     EQU  6	; overflow trap error
dsPrivErr       EQU  7	; privilege violation error
dsTraceErr      EQU  8	; trace mode error
dsLineAErr      EQU  9	; line 1010 trap error
dsLineFErr      EQU 10	; line 1111 trap error
dsMiscErr       EQU 11	; miscellaneous hardware exception error
dsCoreErr       EQU 12	; unimplemented core routine error
dsIrqErr        EQU 13	; uninstalled interrupt error
dsIOCoreErr     EQU 14	; IO Core Error
dsLoadErr       EQU 15	; Segment Loader Error
dsFPErr         EQU 16	; Floating point error
dsNoPackErr     EQU 17	; package 0 not present
dsNoPk1         EQU 18	; package 1 not present
dsNoPk2         EQU 19	; package 2 not present
dsNoPk3         EQU 20	; package 3 not present
dsNoPk4         EQU 21	; package 4 not present
dsNoPk5         EQU 22	; package 5 not present
dsNoPk6         EQU 23	; package 6 not present
dsNoPk7         EQU 24	; package 7 not present
dsMemFullErr    EQU 25	; out of memory!
dsBadLaunch     EQU 26	; can't launch file
dsFSErr         EQU 27	; file system map has been trashed
dsStknHeap      EQU 28	; stack has moved into application heap
dsReinsert      EQU 30	; request user to reinsert off-line volume
dsNotThe1       EQU 31	; not the disk I wanted
negZcbFreeErr   EQU 33	; ZcbFree has gone negative
shutDownAlert   EQU 42	; handled like a shutdown error
menuPrgErr      EQU 84	; happens when a menu is purged

Note that errors 1 to 13 correspond to the equivalently numbered 680x0
exception vectors.
                [ Russ Wetmore ]

jdm@ut-emx.UUCP (Boyd Merworth) (09/06/88)

	Okay, now that I've got a Mac II, my most common error
is "Bus Error" instead of "Address Error". But exactly what is a
Bus Error? 
									
				Jim Meiss				
		 		jdm@emx.utexas.edu
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