Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gymble.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!gymble!neal From: neal@gymble.UUCP (Neal R. Vanderlipp) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: Program bug Message-ID: <267@gymble.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 20:19:00 EDT Article-I.D.: gymble.267 Posted: Tue Aug 20 20:19:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Aug-85 23:31:28 EDT References: <226@gymble.UUCP> <348@persci.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 25 Keywords: hex.., hexa.., hexadecimal >>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.. > >--William Swan Good idea, William. Actually, I've been typing my programs in ASCII, which is even more bizarre than OCTAL. Maybe that's the problem. -- Neal R. Vanderlipp ARPA: neal@maryland CSNet: neal@umcp-cs UUCP: {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!neal