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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: 9 Mar 2005 22:53:44 -0600
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In article <422fc352$1@news.alphalink.com.au>, Song Yun Zhao <mr_songyunzhao@yahoo.com.au> writes:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>> In article <1110052142.832650@athnrd02>, Ioannis Vranos <ivr@remove.this.grad.com> writes:
>> 
>>>Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>>The bug in the C++ library was that I was mistakenly reusing the loop
>>>>variable after the loop, instead of the intended variable.  Of course,
>>>>the loop variable was an index pointing after the end of the buffer.
>>>
>>>
>>>It looks like the code was not ISO C++ compliant.
>> 
>> 
>> In that case, it looks like the compiler failed to detect that shortcoming.
> 
> A real man's compiler
> 
> http://somewhere.fscked.org/rmcc/
> 
> :)

The VMS primitive debugger Delta (used to debug the system bootstrap
but not much else) is famous for having just one error message:

	Eh ?

At one point somebody inside DEC created a fake Delta support Notes
conference with various questions about the way Delta works, each
receiving the response:

	Eh ?