# New Ticket Created by Geoffrey Broadwell
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---
osname= linux
osvers= 2.6.22.10
arch= i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi
cc= cc
---
Flags:
category=core
severity=low
ack=no
---
The error message from parrot when there is a spelling mismatch between
a function call and the function's actual declaration is accurate but
confusing:
*****
$ cat > foob.pir
.sub main :main
foo()
.end
.sub foob
print "Hello\n"
.end
$ ./parrot foob.pir
Null PMC access in invoke()
current instr.: 'main' pc 7 (foob.pir:2)
*****
Of course, once you've seen this error message once or twice, you won't
soon forget the diagnosis. For the sake of beginners however it would
be nice to add a hint to the message, for example:
"Null PMC access in invoke(); misspelled sub name in function call?"
And a similar hint for method calls as well, I suppose.
-'f
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Summary of my parrot 0.5.2 (r24923) configuration:
configdate='Thu Jan 17 00:08:44 2008 GMT'
Platform:
osname=linux, archname=i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi
jitcapable=1, jitarchname=i386-linux,
jitosname=LINUX, jitcpuarch=i386
execcapable=1
perl=/usr/bin/perl
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN
-pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-DHASATTRIBUTE_CONST -DHASATTRIBUTE_DEPRECATED -DHASATTRIBUTE_FORMAT
-DHASATTRIBUTE_MALLOC -DHASATTRIBUTE_NONNULL -DHASATTRIBUTE_NORETURN
-DHASATTRIBUTE_PURE -DHASATTRIBUTE_UNUSED -DHASATTRIBUTE_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
-falign-functions=16 -mno-accumulate-outgoing-args -W -Wall -Waggregate-return
-Wbad-function-cast -Wc++-compat -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wchar-subscripts
-Wcomment -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wdisabled-optimization -Wextra
-Wformat-nonliteral -Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k -Wimplicit
-Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wimplicit-int -Wimport -Winit-self -Winline
-Winvalid-pch -Wmain -Wmissing-braces -Wmissing-declarations
-Wmissing-field-initializers -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wnested-externs -Wno-endif-labels -Wno-shadow -Wno-unused -Wnonnull -Wpacked
-Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wreturn-!
type -Wsequence-point -Wsign-compare -Wstrict-aliasing -Wstrict-aliasing=2
-Wswitch -Wswitch-default -Wtrigraphs -Wundef -Wunknown-pragmas
-Wvariadic-macros -Wwrite-strings',
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags=' -L/usr/local/lib',
cc_ldflags='',
libs='-ldl -lm -lpthread -lcrypt -lrt -lgmp -lreadline'
Dynamic Linking:
share_ext='.so', ld_share_flags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib -fPIC',
load_ext='.so', ld_load_flags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib -fPIC'
Types:
iv=long, intvalsize=4, intsize=4, opcode_t=long, opcode_t_size=4,
ptrsize=4, ptr_alignment=1 byteorder=1234,
nv=double, numvalsize=8, doublesize=8
---
Environment:
HOME =/home/geoff
LANG =en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE (unset)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
LOGDIR (unset)
PATH
=/home/geoff/svk/parrot:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
SHELL =/bin/bash
