panic error

[niteshkpatil]

Hi,

I am compiling a C program on Hp-UX11.11 using the HP C compiler.

% cc test.c (say for example....)

I get the following message and the compilation is aborted.

% cc: panic 3011:

What does this mean ??

Thanks for help in advance.

[Randy Howard]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:54:44 -0600, jacob navia wrote
(in article <45************ **********@news .orange.fr>):

Randy Howard a écrit :

>hint: UNIX programs don't panic. The kernel does, in circumstances
where you get to something like:

/* uh oh, we're never supposed to wind up here */
panic();

otherwise known as unfinished code, or a condition so bad that no
reasonable error handling strategy is available other than a system
crash.

Whoever put that message in a C compiler was just being silly.

You are too hard with the software developers!

Au contraire, the population in general is not nearly hard enough on
them. Besides, calling somebody "silly" isn't very rough, even in this
insane period of political correctness.

If you assume that the shared library with the preprocessor is
in the installation directory and some moron student erased
it to make fun of his fellow students that is NOT something
you can foresee, for instance.

It's also a hell of lot more useful to write something like:

Error: There is something badly wrong with the installation directory:
/usr/contrib/mycc

But hey, "Panic:" is just oh so much more fun, and a sure sign that the
implementor had no idea what a real panic-level error entails.

And it was better to write some diagnostic message than just crashing
like many windows programs do!

Well sure. But that last problem is easily rectified by reinstalling a
proper operating system on the offensive hard drive.

Normally C compilers (and in HP Unix machines) will never give such
an error. But if a component of the compiler is missing, for instance
that one that outputs error messages, the ONLy thing to do is just
write some diagnostics into the screen and exit.

"Panic:" is /not/ a useful diagnostic in a C compiler.
--
Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)
"The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those
who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw

[Joe Estock]

Randy Howard wrote:

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:59:23 -0600, jacob navia wrote
(in article <45************ ***********@new s.orange.fr>):

>Richard Tobin a écrit :

>>In article <45************ **********@news .orange.fr>,
jacob navia <ja***@jacob.re mcomp.frwrote:
Sometimes this "fixes" itself by just reinstalling.

Are you by any chance a Windows user?

-- Richard

"panics" are very often bad installation or missing
parts of the software.

Yes, I am a windows user. No, I have never seen
software under windows "panic", that is a thing
that only happens to me under unix.

windows programs do not "panic", they just crash.

hint: UNIX programs don't panic. The kernel does, in circumstances
where you get to something like:

/* uh oh, we're never supposed to wind up here */
panic();

otherwise known as unfinished code, or a condition so bad that no
reasonable error handling strategy is available other than a system
crash.

Whoever put that message in a C compiler was just being silly.

That is not entirely true. I've seen compilers (especially the compiler
that comes with HPUX) throw this very same error (after spewing out
others) when it encounters more errors than it is designed to handle at
once. I suspect this is what the OP's issue is. The compiler is actually
producing informative messages before it reaches this point; check your
logs, terminal, or do not redirect output from the compiler. If this is
not the case then run your compiler via a debugger and find out where it
is crashing.

[jaysome]

On 9 Jan 2007 22:28:09 -0800, ni**********@gm ail.com wrote:

>Hi,

I am compiling a C program on Hp-UX11.11 using the HP C compiler.

% cc test.c (say for example....)

I get the following message and the compilation is aborted.

% cc: panic 3011:

What does this mean ??

Thanks for help in advance.

Could you kindly post the code in test.c, or whatever file you're
trying to compile?

Thanks
--
jay

[Keith Thompson]

jaysome <ja*****@hotmai l.comwrites:

On 9 Jan 2007 22:28:09 -0800, ni**********@gm ail.com wrote:

>>I am compiling a C program on Hp-UX11.11 using the HP C compiler.

% cc test.c (say for example....)

I get the following message and the compilation is aborted.

% cc: panic 3011:

What does this mean ??

Thanks for help in advance.

Could you kindly post the code in test.c, or whatever file you're
trying to compile?

That's unlikely to be helpful; "panic 3011" probably indicates a bug
in the compiler, not a diagnostic about the program.

The OP needs to ask in another newsgroup, most likely
comp.sys.hp.hpu x.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keit h) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <* <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.

[jacob navia]

Spiros Bousbouras a écrit :

jacob navia wrote:

>>Randy Howard a écrit :

>>>On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:59:23 -0600, jacob navia wrote
(in article <45************ ***********@new s.orange.fr>):

Richard Tobin a écrit :
>In article <45************ **********@news .orange.fr>,
>jacob navia <ja***@jacob.re mcomp.frwrote:
>
>
>
>
>>Sometim es this "fixes" itself by just reinstalling.
>
>
>Are you by any chance a Windows user?
>
>-- Richard

"panics" are very often bad installation or missing
parts of the software.

Yes, I am a windows user. No, I have never seen
software under windows "panic", that is a thing
that only happens to me under unix.

windows programs do not "panic", they just crash.
hint: UNIX programs don't panic. The kernel does, in circumstances
where you get to something like:

/* uh oh, we're never supposed to wind up here */
panic();

otherwise known as unfinished code, or a condition so bad that no
reasonable error handling strategy is available other than a system
crash.

Whoever put that message in a C compiler was just being silly.

You are too hard with the software developers!
If you assume that the shared library with the preprocessor is
in the installation directory and some moron student erased
it to make fun of his fellow students that is NOT something
you can foresee, for instance.

What's the "installati on directory" ? Is it one which
anyone can write ?

Supposedly not, but who knows who made the mistake?

[niteshkpatil]

Hi,

Thanks for all the info people....someb ody asked for the code in
test.c, but sorry I am not authorised to do that.

Anyway...the problem seems with the HPUX C compiler and with some of
its patches....bcoz the program compiles on HPUX with the GCC
compiler.

Thanks once again.