Irish Alert (compiler error)

[Bob Donaldson]

In article <5279 at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, sandell at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Gregory Sandell) writes:
> 
> 	My supervisor has been compiling some C code on our Apollo workstations,and an error message comes up which is not explained at error time, nor in
> any manual.  All it says is "Irish Alert" followed by a bunch of addresses
> and system garbage.  The folks at Apollo got a real chuckle when we told
> them about it, and they're looking into it.

Sounds like an improvement.  Several years ago [1983] compiling C code on
an Apollo was more like a twighlight zone alert.  Seems they had copied
Pascal definitions into the C ....h files and filtered them to change syntax.
It worked pretty well except for the bit field definitions, which [of course]
they used to access error message text for all system calls.  Boy was THAT
fun!
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