Harmless Compiler Bug
John Benjamins
johnb at edge.cis.mcmaster.ca
Mon Feb 1 19:38:08 AEST 2016
In article <1990Oct9.180308.27073 at eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> ron at holodeck.lerc.nasa.gov (Ron Gaug) writes:
>The following fortran subprogram:
[ ... ]
>uopt: Warning: harmless compiler bug detected (LDA length 0); please report to MIPS
>
>when compiled with optimization levels 2 (and above).
>O/S: IRIX 3.3.1
>Compiler: f77 -V shows "Mips Computer Systems 2.0"
>
>But Hey, Don't have a cow man! It's Harmless!
I like that:-) It ranks up there with the message I got after running a
job on a VMS machine a few years ago:
PROGRAM EXECUTION WAS TERMINATED FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON
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