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From: jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: cfront: internal error
Message-ID: <1164@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 08:38:01 EST
Article-I.D.: mcvax.1164
Posted: Wed Nov 19 08:38:01 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Nov-86 22:36:25 EST
References: <644@comp.lancs.ac.uk> <6348@alice.UUCP> <151@sgi.UUCP>
Reply-To: jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
Lines: 35

In article <151@sgi.UUCP> msc@sgi.UUCP (Mark Callow) writes:
 > #include <stream.h>
 > 
 > main()
 > {
 > 	cout << "Hello, world\n"
 > }
 > 
 > and was rewarded with the message:
 > 
 > "hello.c", line 7: internal <<cfront 05/20/86>> error: bus error (or something nasty like that)
 > 
 > I put this down to the typically lousy error recovery I have experienced in
 > UNIX compilers in the past.  I'm really happy to hear that Bjarne is interested
 > in fixing the problem.

H'm, why didn't you tried it again?
I did, and this is the result:

Script started on Wed Nov 19 14:28:06 1986
You have mail.
mcvax> cat t.c
#include <stream.h>
main()
{
	cout << "Hello, stupid\n"
}
mcvax> CC t.c
CC  t.c:
"t.c", line 5: error: ';' expected at end of statement or declaration before '}'
1 error
mcvax>
Script done...

	jaap