On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, L-Soft list server at Queen's University (1.8c) wrote:
>Your message cannot be distributed to the CIRCLE list because it exceeds
>the maximum message size of 200 lines. [...]
[...]
>>> Out you evil daemons of nested externs!
>>> (Try -Wnested-extern on CircleMUD and you'll see what I mean.)
>>
>>Please, explain it (I don't have a machine to test it)
>
>comm.c: In function `new_descriptor':
>comm.c:1025: warning: nested extern declaration of `GREETINGS'
>comm.c: In function `reread_wizlists':
>comm.c:1551: warning: nested extern declaration of `reboot_wizlists'
>comm.c: In function `unrestrict_game':
>comm.c:1560: warning: nested extern declaration of `ban_list'
>comm.c:1561: warning: nested extern declaration of `num_invalid'
>act.comm.c: In function `do_gen_comm':
>act.comm.c:323: warning: nested extern declaration of `level_can_shout'
[...]
It was a 253 line message with all warnings attached.
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