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From: johnb@edge.cis.mcmaster.ca (John Benjamins)
Subject: Re: Harmless Compiler Bug
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.223008.17419@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Keywords: f77 bug
Organization: C.I.S., McMaster  University, Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA
References: <1990Oct9.180308.27073@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>

In article <1990Oct9.180308.27073@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> ron@holodeck.lerc.nasa.gov (Ron Gaug) writes:
>The following fortran subprogram: 
[ ... ]
>uopt: Warning: harmless compiler bug detected (LDA length 0); please report to MIPS
>
>when compiled with optimization levels 2 (and above).
>O/S:	IRIX 3.3.1
>Compiler: f77 -V shows "Mips Computer Systems 2.0"
>
>But Hey, Don't have a cow man!  It's Harmless!

I like that:-) It ranks up there with the message I got after running a
job on a VMS machine a few years ago:

  PROGRAM EXECUTION WAS TERMINATED FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON

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