I saw one on a BUNCH machine compiler, except that it didn't fail, it just gave the wrong result. It was a fairly straightforward COMPUTE statement, something along the lines of COMPUTE D=C-(A*B). The result came back as D=C+(A*B). Didn't take the company long to produce a fix for that one!
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2019 3:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: Fwd: Case TS002648607 (PMR 76523,082,000) - Compiler abend So many times I worked on a script or compiled/assembled code, got an error that made no sense, and then complained to anyone who would listen, "The system is obviously broken". And I'm sure you can guess *exactly* how many of those times the system really turned out to be broken :) On 8/29/2019 10:27 AM, Joseph Reichman wrote: > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: "Basil Kanneth" <bkann...@ca.ibm.com> >> Date: August 29, 2019 at 11:01:57 AM EDT >> To: "Joseph Reichman" <reichman...@gmail.com> >> Subject: RE: Case TS002648607 (PMR 76523,082,000) - Compiler abend >> >> Hi Joseph, >> >> It turns out the system protection exception occurred because of a missing >> semicolon after the following line in the code: >> typedef int (DLL_FN)(char *) >> >> So it should be: >> typedef int (DLL_FN)(char *); >> >> If you make the above changes, your test case should compile fine. >> >> We agree the compiler should not abend in this situation and we are >> investigating a potential fix. >> >> I will provide you with another update by Thursday, September 5th, 2019. >> >> Regards, >> ________________________________ >> Basil Kanneth, PMP® >> IBM XL C,C++, Fortran & COBOL Compilers Service Team IBM Software >> Group - Toronto Lab The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
