#301 GPASM warning message badly formatted

[Philippe Paternotte]

Hi,
The end of this message is very strange:
...Warning[202] Argument out of range. Least significant bits used. Bit{277ns} > 7.

[Molnár Károly]

I will watch it.

Károly

[Molnár Károly]

I do not know what code caused this message. For me this code could brought about:

LOC    OBJECT CODE    LINE  SOURCE TEXT
  VALUE

                      00001         processor 18f25k50
                      00002         include "p18f25k50.inc"
                      00001         LIST
                      00002 
                      00003 ;==========================================================================
                      00004 ; Build date : Oct 21 2015
                      00005 ;  MPASM PIC18F25K50 processor include
                      00006 ; 
                      00007 ;  (c) Copyright 1999-2015 Microchip Technology, All rights reserved
                      00008 ;==========================================================================
                      00009 
                      02208         LIST
                      00003 
                      00004 main    code
                      00005 
Warning[202]: Argument out of range. Least significant bits used. Bit{277ns} > 7.
000000 9A89           00006         bcf     LATA, 0x115
                      00007 
                      00008         end

This is a perfectly good warning.

Károly

[Philippe Paternotte]

Hi, I did not say that it is not legal, but that its formulation was, say, a bit difficult to understand: what 277ns means?

[Molnár Károly]

This text made by the google translator. It seems that this is an unlucky translation. I wanted to show what the wrong and what is the maximum possible value.

Maybe it would have been better this: "Argument out of range. The three least significant bits are usable. Value: 277, Limit: 7"

In my own language I like to formulate clearly and intelligently. I know how horrible it can be to read what I write down in English. That is why I do not like to write documentation. Many times it would be nice if the explanations someone would help translate into English.

Károly

[Philippe Paternotte]

Hi,
Károly your English is quite understandable, don't worry.
Finally I understand the warning message repeating what the assembler found (bit number 227); I did not seen it at first because the line was by mistake "BCF LATA, LATA" and LATA is 0x115 = 227...
Now it's only I don't undestand what the "ns" after 227 stand for.

[Molnár Károly]

May be that is understandable, but can be often grammatically incorrect.

Now it's only I don't understand what the "ns" after 227 stand for.

So it would have been better for the wording: "227th bit"

The referred warning message in reworded shape:
"Argument out of range. The three least significant bits are usable. Bad value: 277 (0x115), Limit: 7"

It will be good that way?

Károly

[Philippe Paternotte]

;-) Now this is too much... Now you have to rework all the messages to make them as good and precise as this one!
Good night, see ya next year!

[Molnár Károly]

This the new version: [r1296]

gputils-src-20170101-1296.tar.bz2
gputils-src-20170101-1296.tar.gz (sourceforge.net)
gputils-20170101-1296-setup.exe (sourceforge.net)