Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site persci.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!tikal!cholula!persci!bill From: bill@persci.UUCP Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: Program bug Message-ID: <348@persci.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 12:50:57 EDT Article-I.D.: persci.348 Posted: Thu Aug 15 12:50:57 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 19:42:27 EDT References: <226@gymble.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (William Swan) Distribution: na Organization: Personal Scientific, Woodinville WA Lines: 20 Keywords: hex.., hexa.., hexadecimal Xref: tektronix net.bizarre:00614 Summary: In article <226@gymble.UUCP> neal@gymble.UUCP (Neal R. Vanderlipp) writes: >My program crashed. Can anyone debug it for me? Here's the core dump: > >0000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 >[...] >0000060 000000 000000 177600 010000 177600 007770 177400 060770 >[...] >0002340 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 >-- It's obvious! You gave it information in OCTAL!! Everybody knows REAL MACHINES read only HEXADECIMAL!!! Try re-typing your program in hex and see what it does.. -- "My dictionary lists *NO* words starting with 'hexi' (except hexing)." William Swan {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill