[GNC] Stock quotes
Michael Hendry
hendry.michael at gmail.com
Mon May 27 02:40:29 EDT 2019
> On 27 May 2019, at 00:02, Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
> On 5/26/19 4:34 PM, Steve wrote:
>> That was it. I still had one set up as Alphavantage. "Unknown error"
>> is not the most helpful error message.
>>
>
> I wrote a big program once, and at one point in the program, I had it
> print out the error message, "WAHOO!"
>
> It actually came out once and the user called me on the telephone to
> complain about the unhelpful message. But think about the code that
> generated the message and answer this: what error message would you have
> printed. Assembler code
>
> TZE C (transfer if zero)) to location C
> TPL A (transfer if positive) to location A
> TMI B (transfer if negative) to location B
>
> PRINT "WAHOO!"
>
> It must have been a machine error. There was no logical way to get to
> that PRINT statement.
Have you thought about a fault elsewhere in your program which caused a jump to the third line (TMI B…) with a positive or zero value in the appropriate register?
Michael
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