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From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: REJOICE, New bombs in 6.0.7
Message-ID: <2131.272edb99@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 31 Oct 90 01:11:37 GMT
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In <9406@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
says that all the 6.x versions of MacsBug have descriptive messages
for system errors.

No they certainly do not!

What MacsBug *does* have is its own handlers for the hardware-generated
exceptions such as bus error, line-F exception and so on. It outputs
its own descriptive messages for these. But its handler for calls
to _SysError does little more than output the ID number for the rest.

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