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From: sandell@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Gregory Sandell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo,comp.lang.c,soc.culture.celtic
Subject: Irish Alert (compiler error)
Message-ID: <5279@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 23 Jun 88 22:58:20 GMT
Reply-To: sandell@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Gregory Sandell)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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	I must preface this by saying that this is no joke.  Although maybe
the folks who wrote Apollo's C compiler are joking.

	My supervisor has been compiling some C code on our Apollo workstations,and an error message comes up which is not explained at error time, nor in
any manual.  All it says is "Irish Alert" followed by a bunch of addresses
and system garbage.  The folks at Apollo got a real chuckle when we told
them about it, and they're looking into it.

	Does "Irish Alert" have any general meaning in the C language, or is it
specific to Apollos?  Does it mean that a potato famine is coming?

Greg Sandell