New subject: RE : Cryptic runtime error

26 Jul 2005


      Hi,
I am currently converting many SUN Pascal programs to GPC (on Solaris for
now).
I must say, the operation goes pretty well for now (with the help of a Perl
translation program I build progressively when I encounter syntax issues).
In this context, the first time I ran my second translated program, I got
the following runtime error:
run.shell: Value out of range (error #300 at 4692b)
Here comes my point:
- That is true, there was an error, but I had to browse the code a lot to
find it!
- With such a message, is there a way to find out where the faulty code is?
- What means the 4692b (an address in hex?)?
- Is it feasible to implement (in a future release) more explicit error
messages, like 'run.shell: Value out of range in run.shell.pas, line 1229'
for example, when the program is compiled with -o0 and -g options?
Anyway, I would greatly appreciate a hint for the next time I will have such
a runtime error.
Thanks
Pascal Viandier