pmontgom@euphemia.math.ucla.edu (Peter Montgomery) (09/22/90)
In article <1990Sep21.172807.25052@Solbourne.COM> imp@Solbourne.COM (Warner Losh) writes: >Given all the weird messages in the machine, what about the error messages >that get printed from time to time? I've seen some really bad ones. > Presently, if I try to assemble a program on a NeXT and the source code has a duplicate label, such as abc: abc: then I get (dup.s = source file name) dup.s:2:FATAL:as: 2nd pass not implemented - get your code from random(3) The SUN 3 error message for that source code is much clearer as: error (dup.s:2): Multiply defined symbol as: Assembler Error-- wrong number of text labels: 1 found -- Peter L. Montgomery pmontgom@MATH.UCLA.EDU Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555 If I spent as much time on my dissertation as I do reading news, I'd graduate.