Worst Exception!!

AlphaDeltaTheta

What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

Lost User

All of the "something went wrong, but I'm not going to tell you what, why, or even where, neener neener"-Exceptions. XNA was pretty good at throwing those - often in a manner that the debugger would fail to run. Actually native code in general is good at that. For example, if anything happens after the stack gets misaligned on win64, things go very wrong.

Jacquers

object reference not set to an instance of an object index is outside the bounds of the array

Pete OHanlon

I can't remember.

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LloydA111

I'm sure there are lots, however, the one that is currently getting on my nerves is "File not found" being thrown by one of my Python scripts when I try to import a library, despite the fact I damn well know it's installed and working. Python seems very flakey when it comes to libraries, particularly on Windows. One day it works the next it doesn't.

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OriginalGriff

"An unexpected error has occured"[^] - you mean, as opposed to a totaly expected error, then? :doh:

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pkfox

Back in my dark COBOL days "Abnormal abend", that could indicate anything.

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Lost User

Those are easy to analyze and fix though..

Lost User

You should expect exceptions whenever you do something which your code can't guarantee to be successful. And you should write code to catch and handle the problems you expect. Whenever an exception lands in a general exception handler, it obviously was not expected and not really handled, just reported. But I agree, if that's all a program has to say about an error, then the error handling is a little thin.

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OriginalGriff

<shudder> I'd forgotten that one: OS/360 in my case. And wasn't the explanation helpfull as well? "The RTM2WA is pointed to by the TCB of the failing task (field TCBRTWA), and is listed after the abnormally ending TCB." Why can't you just say "You forgot a comma you idiot" and let us both move on? :laugh:

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OriginalGriff

That was about the only error reporting you seemed to get with Microsoft C in the DOS days. Ot at least, the only reporting I can remember. (I couldn't find an image of the DOS screen, where it was that and an "OK" and "Cancel" button, both of which did the same thing: crash.)

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Jorgen Andersson

BSOD

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Lost User

And everything we wrote that long ago was better? :)

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pkfox

Wonderful stuff !!!

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pkfox

Ah yes the compiler messages of MicroFocus COBOL !!! - miss one full-stop (period) and you would get 1000's of errors. Deep joy.

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Joezer BH

Quote:

"Error: Cannot delete 6342_637.oft, there is not enough disk space. Delete one or more files to free disk space, and then try again."

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OriginalGriff

Well, I at least tried to tell the user what he had done wrong. Most of the time. Some of the time, probably. But MS didn't even give a nod towards "user friendly" in those days; it was "user hostile" at best, and "outright hatred" at worst.

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OriginalGriff

Oh god, I'd forgotten that piece of zen wonderfulnes

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Joezer BH

Not an exception but with the same flavour. During windows start-up device detection: "Keyboard error or no keyboard present." and below the well known "Press F1 to continue or ESC to enter SETUP."

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Gary R Wheeler

0xC0000005, aka Windows access violation. Detection is nowhere near the place in your source code that caused the problem, and the actual cause usually has nothing to do with an attempt to access any kind of protected object.

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