Re: Dept of Utterly Useless Error Messages

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 19:50 -0600, David G. Miller wrote:
Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When I run xpdf I get the message "Warning: Attempt to remove
nonexistent passive grab". The program seems to run in spite of this.
I googled for the message, with a number of hits, but none had any
suggestion of a solution, or a cause. Developers who introduce warning
messages like this should be sentenced to read the complete works of
Kim Jong Il.
Oh, come on. I remember a fellow getting the message "Error in source
deck." from a programming class way back when (?? ALGOL on in an IBM
System/370 ??).

Now that's a utterly useless error message.

That is fascinating. How did you represent an up arrow in EBCDIC? Not to
mention the other non-EBCDIC symbols in Algol. Has anyone ever used a C
compiler on a 370. It is a riot.
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