tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) (11/03/90)
When running strings(1) on xdb (the screen-oriented debugger on HP-UX), I found the following: Hmmm, it seems to be in the hardware. Things look good, but you may have a halting problem. I see no bugs here. Why ask me? It's your program! I can see the problem, but it will do you good to find it yourself. You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building... No known bugs. Hmm, seems to be in the hardware. Mice, it's mice!! There's no bug in this program. It's the operating system!! I knew, but I suffered an uncorrectable ECC error. Aha!!! It's.... no, that's not it. You don't really expect this command to work, do you? Return to sender, address unknown. SNAFU I don't know. I'd much rather play rogue. There's no bug in this program. It's the C optimizer!! Yeeecchh. This is terrible code. brain damage (mos dumped) I knew, but I suffered random alpha particle radiation. Don't press your luck....or would you like adb back!! Start from scratch. brain damage (core dumped) (mos dumped) (everything dumped) Got a dime? -- Tor Lillqvist, working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland