weird C-compiler error message

[Curtis Jackson]

Hi.  We're talking SVR2 Unix on a Vax 11/780 here.  A novice user
was playing around with C and wrote a program that started like
this:

int f1, f2;  /* other variable declarations, too */
main(argc,argv)
int argc, f1, f2;
char **argv;
{

On lines 27 and 30 of his program, he referenced the variable "f2".

Our illustrious (actually usually pretty damn good) C compiler said:

27: warning: bad arg temp
30: warning: bad arg temp

And that is it; there is nothing resembling "temp" in the program.

How informative can ya get for your novices?  ;-)
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