Xref: utzoo comp.sys.apollo:1054 comp.lang.c:10898 soc.culture.celtic:1011 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!tness7!petro!swrinde!ut-sally!ut-emx!mybest!bigtex!juniper!bloom!bobd From: bobd@bloom.UUCP (Bob Donaldson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo,comp.lang.c,soc.culture.celtic Subject: Re: Irish Alert (compiler error) Summary: Apollo is improving Message-ID: <425@bloom.UUCP> Date: 24 Jun 88 17:21:16 GMT References: <5279@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Lines: 19 In article <5279@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, sandell@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Gregory Sandell) writes: > > 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. Sounds like an improvement. Several years ago [1983] compiling C code on an Apollo was more like a twighlight zone alert. Seems they had copied Pascal definitions into the C ....h files and filtered them to change syntax. It worked pretty well except for the bit field definitions, which [of course] they used to access error message text for all system calls. Boy was THAT fun! ---------------------------- These views are barely my own - I won't even share them with my employers, so I doubt they share them with me. Bob Donaldson ...!ut-emx!juniper!radian!bobd ...!sun!texsun!radian!bobd