[Info-vax] COBOL, <gack!> again! Return status.

[gah4]

On Monday, September 11, 2023 at 1:08:43 PM UTC-7, Robert A. Brooks wrote:

(snip)

> What is surprising about the below messages, and the escalation in their severity? 
 
> $ exit 8 
> %SYSTEM-W-ACCVIO, access violation, reason mask=00, virtual address=0000000000000008, PC=000000007AEE1EA8, PS=00000000 
> $ exit 10 
> %SYSTEM-E-ACCVIO, access violation, reason mask=00, virtual address=000000000000000A, PC=000000007AEE1EA8, PS=00000000 
> $ exit 12 
> %SYSTEM-F-ACCVIO, access violation, reason mask=00, virtual address=000000000000000C, PC=000000007AEE1EA8, PS=00000000 
 
It was a C program that I wrote, and that had exit(8); in it.

There was no access violation.

Well, even more, the program does a lot of array access, and I had for a while
been tracking down array bounds problems.  Though most were fixed by then,
it is possible that there were some left.  But that is my first thought.


> $ HELP /MESSAGE ACCVIO will explain the above. 

I suppose it helps if someone else wrote the program.