> I gather this isn't supposed to happen:
 > 
 > 
 > qc-- -globals -o ACKERMAN ACKERMAN.c--
 > This can't happen: Asked for temporary in space `general-purpose 
 > temporaries' with unsupported width 64
 > Fatal error: exception Impossible.Impossible("Asked for temporary in 
 > space `general-purpose temporaries' with unsupported width 64")
 > make: *** [ACKERMAN] Error 2
 > hend...@lovesong:~/dv/lang/a68h/workspace$ 
 > 
 > It might be useful if a this-can't-happen were to produce the source
 > line number of the construct occasioning the problem.

this-can't-happen means that the compiler has become so sick that it
can't continue.  source coordinates are but a distant memory.
We usually get a stack trace, which is useful...

 > ACKERMAN.c-- is 483 lines.  Do you want a copy?

Yes.  Though I can't see doing anything about it until after the ICFP
deadline (March 2).   I can guess where this message is coming from,
and the code is foul.  Very foul.


Norman
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