Appendix 4. Error Messages
This is a list of all error-naming ATOMs initially in the ERRORS OBLIST, in the left-hand column, and appropriate examples or elucidations, where necessary, in the right-hand column.
ACCESS-FAILURE |
ACCESS, RESTORE (Tenex and Tops-20 versions only) |
ALREADY-DEFINED-ERRET-NON-FALSE-TO-REDEFINE |
|
APPLY-OR-STACKFORM-OF-FSUBR |
First argument to APPLY, STACKFORM, MAPF/R doesn't EVAL all its arguments. |
ARG-WRONG-TYPE |
|
ARGUMENT-OUT-OF-RANGE |
<ASCII 999>$ Second argument to NTH or REST too big or small. |
ATOM-ALREADY-THERE |
<INSERT "T" <ROOT>>$ <LINK 'T "T" <ROOT>>$ |
ATOM-NOT-TYPE-NAME-OR-SPECIAL-SYMBOL |
DECL problem |
ATOM-ON-DIFFERENT-OBLIST |
INSERT, LINK, REMOVE |
ATTEMPT-TO-BREAK-OWN-SEQUENCE |
<BREAK-SEQ T <ME>>$ |
ATTEMPT-TO-CHANGE-MANIFEST-VARIABLE |
|
ATTEMPT-TO-CLOSE-TTY-CHANNEL |
<CLOSE ,INCHAN>$ |
ATTEMPT-TO-DEFER-UNDEFERABLE-INTERRUPT |
"Undeferable" interrupt (e.g. "ERROR") while INT-LEVEL is too high to handle it |
ATTEMPT-TO-GROW-VECTOR-TOO-MUCH |
GROW argument greater than <* 16 1024> |
ATTEMPT-TO-MUNG-ATOMS-PNAME |
<PUT <SPNAME T> 1 !\T>$ |
ATTEMPT-TO-MUNG-PURE-STRUCTURE |
attempt to write into pure page |
ATTEMPT-TO-SUICIDE-TO-SELF |
<SUICIDE <ME>>$ |
BAD-ARGUMENT-LIST |
<GDECL ("HI") STRING>$ |
BAD-ASCII-CHARACTER |
A character with wrong byte size or ASCII code more than 177 octal has been read (how?). |
BAD-BYTES-DECL |
|
BAD-CHANNEL |
|
BAD-CLAUSE |
Argument to COND is non-LIST or empty LIST. |
BAD-DECLARATION-LIST |
DECL in bad form |
BAD-DEFAULT-OBLIST-SPECIFICATION |
bad use of DEFAULT in LIST of OBLISTs |
BAD-ENTRY-BLOCK |
RSUBR-ENTRY does not point to good RSUBR. |
BAD-ENVIRONMENT |
|
BAD-FIXUPS |
|
BAD-FUNARG |
CLOSURE in bad form |
BAD-GC-READ-FILE |
|
BAD-INPUT-BUFFER |
(for a CHANNEL) |
BAD-LINK |
<GUNASSIGN <CHTYPE link ATOM>> |
BAD-MACRO-TABLE |
.READ-TABLE or .PARSE-TABLE is not a vector. |
BAD-OBLIST-OR-LIST-THEREOF |
Alleged look-up list is not of TYPE OBLIST or LIST. |
BAD-PARSE-STRING |
non-STRING argument to PARSE |
BAD-PNAME |
attempt to output ATOM with missing or zero-length PNAME |
BAD-PRIMTYPEC |
|
BAD-TEMPLATE-DATA |
|
BAD-TYPE-CODE |
|
BAD-TYPE-NAME |
ATOM purports to be a TYPE but isn't. |
BAD-TYPE-SPECIFICATION |
DECL problem |
BAD-USE-OF-BYTE-STRING |
#3$ |
BAD-USE-OF-MACRO |
|
BAD-USE-OF-SQUIGGLY-BRACKETS |
{}$ |
BAD-VECTOR |
Bad argument to RSUBR-ENTRY |
BYTE-SIZE-BAD |
"NET" CHANNEL |
CANT-CHTYPE-INTO |
<CHTYPE 1 SUBR>$ |
CANT-FIND-TEMPLATE |
attempt to GC-READ a structure containing a TEMPLATE whose TYPE does not exist |
CANT-OPEN-OUTPUT-FILE |
SAVE |
CANT-RETRY-ENTRY-GONE |
attempt to RETRY a call to an RSUBR-ENTRY whose RSUBR cannot be found |
CANT-SUBSTITUTE-WITH-STRING-OR-TUPLE-AND-OTHER |
<SUBSTITUTE "T" T>$ |
CAN\'T-PARSE |
<PARSE "">$ <PARSE ")">$ |
CHANNEL-CLOSED |
<READ <CLOSE channel>>$ |
CONTROL-G? |
^G |
COUNT-GREATER-THAN-STRING-SIZE |
<PRINTSTRING "" ,OUTCHAN 1>$ |
DANGEROUS-INTERRUPT-NOT-HANDLED |
(See section 21.8.15.) (ITS version only) |
DATA-CANT-GO-IN-UNIFORM-VECTOR |
!["STRING"]$ ![<FRAME>]$ |
DATA-CAN\'T-GO-IN-STORAGE |
FREEZE ISTORAGE |
DECL-ELEMENT-NOT-FORM-OR-ATOM |
|
DECL-VIOLATION |
|
DEVICE-OR-SNAME-DIFFERS |
RENAME |
ELEMENT-TYPE-NOT-ATOM-FORM-OR-VECTOR |
DECL problem |
EMPTY-FORM-IN-DECL |
|
EMPTY-OR/PRIMTYPE-FORM |
<OR> or <PRIMTYPE> in DECL |
EMPTY-STRING |
<READSTRING "">$ |
END-OF-FILE |
|
ERRET-TYPE-NAME-DESIRED |
|
ERROR-IN-COMPILED-CODE |
|
FILE-NOT-FOUND |
RESTORE |
FILE-SYSTEM-ERROR |
|
FIRST-ARG-WRONG-TYPE |
|
FIRST-ELEMENT-OF-VECTOR-NOT-CODE |
RSUBR in bad form. |
FIRST-VECTOR-ELEMENT-NOT-REST-OR-A-FIX |
#DECL ((X) <LIST [FOO]>) |
FRAME-NO-LONGER-EXISTS |
(unused) |
HANDLER-ALREADY-IN-USE |
|
HAS-EMPTY-BODY |
<#FUNCTION ((X)) 1>$ |
ILLEGAL |
|
ILLEGAL-ARGUMENT-BLOCK |
attempt to PRINT a TUPLE that no longer exists |
ILLEGAL-FRAME |
|
ILLEGAL-LOCATIVE |
|
ILLEGAL-SEGMENT |
Third and later arguments to MAPF/R not STRUCTURED. |
ILLEGAL-TENEX-FILE-NAME |
(Tenex and Tops-20 versions only) |
INT-DEVICE-WRONG-TYPE-EVALUATION-RESULT |
function for "INT" input CHANNEL returned non-CHARACTER. |
INTERNAL-BACK-OR-TOP-OF-A-LIST |
in compiled code |
INTERNAL-INTERRUPT |
(unused) |
INTERRUPT-UNAVAILABLE-ON-TENEX |
(Tenex and Tops-20 versions only) |
ITS-CHANNELS-EXHAUSTED |
Interpreter couldn't open an ITS I/O channel. |
MEANINGLESS-PARAMETER-DECLARATION |
bad object in argument LIST of Function |
MESSAGE-TOO-BIG |
IPC (ITS version only) |
MUDDLE-VERSIONS-DIFFER |
RESTORE (version = release) |
NEGATIVE-ARGUMENT |
|
NIL-LIST-OF-OBLISTS |
<SET OBLIST '()> T$ |
NO-FIXUP-FILE |
MDL couldn't find fixup file (section 19.9). |
NO-ITS-CHANNELS-FREE |
IPC-ON (ITS version only) |
NO-MORE-PAGES |
for pure-code mapping |
NO-PROCESS-TO-RESUME |
<OR <RESUMER> <RESUME>>$ |
NO-ROOM-AVAILABLE |
MDL couldn't allocate a page to map in pure code. |
NO-SAV-FILE |
MDL couldn't find pure-code file (section 19.9). |
NO-STORAGE |
No free storage available for GROW. |
NON-6-BIT-CHARACTER-IN-FILE-NAME |
|
NON-APPLICABLE-REP |
<VALUE REP> not APPLICABLE |
NON-APPLICABLE-TYPE |
|
NON-ATOMIC-ARGUMENT |
|
NON-ATOMIC-OBLIST-NAME |
T!-3$ |
NON-DSK-DEVICE |
(unused) |
NON-EVALUATEABLE-TYPE |
(unused) |
NON-EXISTENT-TAG |
(unused) |
NON-STRUCTURED-ARG-TO-INTERNAL-PUT-REST-NTH-TOP-OR-BACK |
in compiled code |
NON-TYPE-FOR-PRIMTYPE-ARG |
<PRIMTYPE not-type> in DECL |
NOT-A-TTY-TYPE-CHANNEL |
|
NOT-HANDLED |
First argument to OFF not ONed. |
NOT-IN-ARG-LIST |
TUPLE or ITUPLE called outside argument LIST. |
NOT-IN-MAP-FUNCTION |
MAPRET, MAPLEAVE, MAPSTOP not within MAPF/R |
NOT-IN-PROG |
<RETURN>$ <AGAIN>$ |
NTH-BY-A-NEGATIVE-NUMBER |
in compiled code |
NTH-REST-PUT-OUT-OF-RANGE |
in compiled code |
NULL-STRING |
zero-length STRING |
NUMBER-OUT-OF-RANGE |
2E38$ |
ON-AN-OBLIST-ALREADY |
<INSERT T <ROOT>>$ |
OUT-OF-BOUNDS |
<1 '()>$ BLOAT argument too large |
OVERFLOW |
<!-- 1 0-->$ <* 1E30 1E30>$ |
PDL-OVERFLOW-BUFFER-EXHAUSTED |
Stack overflow while trying to expand stack: use RETRY. |
PROCESS-NOT-RESUMABLE |
use of another PROCESS's FRAME, etc. |
PROCESS-NOT-RUNABLE-OR-RESUMABLE |
|
PURE-LOAD-FAILURE |
Pure-code file disappeared. |
READER-SYNTAX-ERROR-ERRET-ANYTHING-TO-GO-ON |
|
RSUBR-ENTRY-UNLINKED |
RSUBR-ENTRY whose RSUBR cannot be found |
RSUBR-IN-BAD-FORMAT |
|
RSUBR-LACKS-FIXUPS |
KEEP-FIXUPS should have been true when RSUBR was input. |
SECOND-ARG-WRONG-TYPE |
|
STORAGE-TYPES-DIFFER |
<CHTYPE 1 LIST>$ <CHUTYPE '![1] LIST>$ |
STRUCTURE-CONTAINS-UNDUMPABLE-TYPE |
<GC-DUMP <ME> <>>$ |
SUBSTITUTE-TYPE-FOR-TYPE |
<SUBSTITUTE SUBR FSUBR>$ |
TEMPLATE-TYPE-NAME-NOT-OF-TYPE-TEMPLATE |
attempt to GC-READ a structure containing a TEMPLATE whose TYPE is defined but is not a TEMPLATE |
TEMPLATE-TYPE-VIOLATION |
|
THIRD-ARG-WRONG-TYPE |
|
TOO-FEW-ARGUMENTS-SUPPLIED |
|
TOO-MANY-ARGS-TO-PRIMTYPE-DECL |
<PRIMTYPE any ...> |
TOO-MANY-ARGS-TO-SPECIAL-UNSPECIAL-DECL |
<SPECIAL any ...> |
TOO-MANY-ARGUMENTS-SUPPLIED |
|
TOP-LEVEL-FRAME |
<ERRET> <FRAME <FRAME <FRAME>>>$ |
TYPE-ALREADY-EXISTS |
NEWTYPE |
TYPE-MISMATCH |
attempt to make a value violate its DECL |
TYPE-UNDEFINED |
|
TYPES-DIFFER-IN-STORAGE-OBJECT |
ISTORAGE |
TYPES-DIFFER-IN-UNIFORM-VECTOR |
![T <>]$ |
UNASSIGNED-VARIABLE |
|
UNATTACHED-PATH-NAME-SEPARATOR |
!-$ |
UNBOUND-VARIABLE |
|
UNMATCHED |
ENDBLOCK with no matching BLOCK |
UVECTOR-PUT-TYPE-VIOLATION |
PUT, SETLOC, SUBSTRUC in compiled code |
VECTOR-LESS-THAN-2-ELEMENTS |
#DECL ((X) <LIST [REST]>) |
WRONG-DIRECTION-CHANNEL |
<OPEN "MYFILE">$ (Mode missing or misspelt.) |
WRONG-NUMBER-OF-ARGUMENTS |