Re: [CODE] A crash message

From: Daniel Koepke (dkoepke@CALIFORNIA.COM)
Date: 11/30/97


On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Chuck Reed wrote:

->I recently got this crash message
->
->SYSERR: CHECKPOINT shutdown: tics not updated
->
->and have no clue to what it may mean.  Any clues?

That's not a crash.  That's most likely an infinite loop.  Eg., a loop
that is never exited.  An example:

  for (i = 12; i; i++) /* we want i--, not i++ */
    infinite_loop();


daniel koepke / dkoepke@california.com


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