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From: lkoop@pnet01.cts.com (Lamonte Koop)
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Subject: Re: Interpretation of Guru numbers
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Date: 15 Dec 90 01:16:07 GMT
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ms1@philabs.philips.com (Mitch Stein) writes:
>
>	Help,
>
>	I,m using a public domain pascal compiler and while attempting
>to write my first program using arrays and strings although the source
>code compiles without errors when I try to run the program the system
>immediately GURU's with: 00000003.002398D8  What does it mean. Secondly
>This same program with slight modification runs fine on a PC using
>Turbo Pascal what could be the problem using PCQ.
>
>				MITCH

The guru number you are getting is indicative of a general purpose 680x0
address error.  This is what the 3 before the decimal point refers to.  The
numbering after the decimal place is the address of the problematic task. 
Without a debugger, it is hard to know exactly why the program is causing
this, as there can be many sources of such an error.  Unfortunately, the fact
that you are using a PD compiler only means it could also be a problem rooted
there.  Note that even if the program compiles fine on the PC that it will not
necessarily mean that it is in suitable form for use in the context of an
Amiga. However, since you noted that it is basically an array and string
manipulation program, this may not in fact be the problem.  If you are bent on
using something such as Pascal, I suggest you look into one of the Modula-2
compilers available for the Amiga.  Benchmark Modula-2 is fairly good, and bug
free (I use it myself for projects which don't call for C).  In this way, you
can be relatively sure it's not a buggy compiler, and going from Pascal to
Modula-2 is not terribly difficult.


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