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From: peter@msinc.msi.com (Peter Blemel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: What does this mean???
Message-ID: <131@.msinc.msi.com>
Date: 26 Oct 90 08:45:03 GMT
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I have the offending code in hand. I guess the real question is :
	Is this illegal or has the compiler generated wrong code?


Remember the mail address is wrong, should be :
bbx!yenta!msinc!peter@unmvax.cs.unm.edu

Script command is started on Thu Oct 25 19:57:01 1990
peter@cassandra[1] .../Cpred/cc % touch eeep.c
peter@cassandra[2] .../Cpred/cc % make eeep
    cc -g -I../include  eeep.c -o eeep
0706-971 INTERNAL ERROR:  LINKS: The number of ESDs processed exceeds
            the expected total ESDs.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 12.

Make Quitting.
peter@cassandra[4] .../Cpred/cc % cat eeep.c
# define    HELP_ENTRIES    3

    typedef struct _help {
        char    *key;
        char    *text[];
    } HELP_TEXT;

    /* I've trimmed this down to a small subset of the data so that
    ** the problem/solution might be clearer.
    */
    HELP_TEXT       help_text[HELP_ENTRIES] = {
        "help", {"Display help on a topic.",
                "\tSyntax : help subject"},
        "use", {"Request that predictor import a file into the current system",
                "\tSyntax : use \"filename\""},
        "stop", {"Terminate C-Predictor immediately.",
                "\tSyntax : stop"}
    };

    /* display_help, and topic have been made into a main and a fixed
    ** string for illustration purposes. They were originally
    ** display_help(topic) char *topic; { body of help code } 
    ** char    *topic = "stop";
    */

main()
{
	/* Minimal code to cause it to fail. */
    printf ("Eeep Eeep Eeep\n");
}
peter@cassandra[5] .../Cpred/cc % ^D
Script command is complete on Thu Oct 25 19:57:17 1990

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