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From: gregg@a.cs.okstate.edu (Gregg Wonderly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: TPU compile failures
Message-ID: <3639@okstate.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 88 02:09:05 GMT
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Organization: Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater
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Ed Wilts writes:
> I am having a WEIRD problem compiling large (> 4000 lines, plus EVESECINI ).
> The compilation step supersedes all the procedures are then will terminate
> with a COMPILEFAIL message.  There are NO errors in the source code.
> This can be verified by compiling each module individually.  The line
> number coming back from the compilation is bogus (apparently).  Although
> all the procedures are said to be superseded, most them are undefined.
> This appears, to me anyway, to be a bug in TPU.  Has anybody else run
> accross this strangeness?  We are running VMS 4.6.
>         .../Ed

I have had this happen to me, and found it to be associated with a missing
semi-colon on an ENDPROCEDURE.  Typically the ENDPROCEDURE seems to be followed
by something other than PROCEDURE.

Gregg Wonderly
Mathematics Dept. Oklahoma State University

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