What does this mean?

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> writes:

| On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:41:49PM -0400, nbecker@fred.net wrote:
| >     Mike> Just a wild ass guess, but is it the name of a user declared variable
| >     Mike> in the source code fed to the compiler?  I noticed that you didn't ask
| >     Mike> what 0x000000c06821a2da0fc90140 meant.
| > 
| > I don't understand why it says "(+rng)".  Why the plus sign?  Why the
| > paranthesis?  I don't think my question is stupid.
| 
| What does the line in the source code look like?  That hasn't been
| posted yet.  If the source says "(+rng)" then there's your answer.  :-)

Not quite.
Under some (obscure) circumstances the diagnostics machinery in
cp/errors.c tends to format expression like the above.  I bet nbecker
had encountered such a circumstance.

Yes, that is a bug in cp/errors.c

-- Gaby