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From: pmontgom@euphemia.math.ucla.edu (Peter Montgomery)
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Subject: Re: Worst error messages of all time.
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Date: 22 Sep 90 03:24:46 GMT
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In article <1990Sep21.172807.25052@Solbourne.COM> imp@Solbourne.COM (Warner Losh) writes:
>Given all the weird messages in the machine, what about the error messages
>that get printed from time to time?  I've seen some really bad ones.
>
	Presently, if I try to assemble a program on a NeXT
and the source code has a duplicate label, such as

abc:
abc:

then I get (dup.s = source file name)

    dup.s:2:FATAL:as: 2nd pass not implemented - get your code from random(3)

The SUN 3 error message for that source code is much clearer

    as: error (dup.s:2): Multiply defined symbol
    as: Assembler Error-- wrong number of text labels: 1 found
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        Peter L. Montgomery 
        pmontgom@MATH.UCLA.EDU 
        Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555
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