"Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum" <10353@lyskom.lysator.liu.se> wrote:

You need to put your code inside a function. Try calling it "main".

Well I was hoping that would be assumed.

But maybe me posting the whole bit of code will help...

void handle_error(array|object trace, void|object o)
{
  if(mixed x=catch {

    object ferr = Stdio.File("C:/EMAGE/sys/data/log/run.c", "wca+");
   
    string sWrite = describe_backtrace(trace);
   
    int nLine;
    string sFunc;
    string sFile;
    string sParams;
    string sOut = "";
   
    if(o)
    {
        sOut += "Error occured in: " + object_name(o) + "\n";
    }
   
    foreach(sWrite/"\n", string s)
    {
        if(sscanf(s, "%s:%d:%*s->%s(%s", sFile, nLine, sFunc, sParams) == 5)
        {
            string sLine = (string)nLine;
            string sTemp = "   ";
           
            sLine = sTemp[0 .. sizeof(sTemp) - sizeof(sLine)] + sLine + " ";
            sTemp = "                    ";
            sFunc = sFunc + sTemp[0 .. sizeof(sTemp) - sizeof(sFunc)];
           
            sOut += sLine + sFunc + sFile + " (" + sParams + ")\n";
        }
        else
        {
            if(s != "")
            {
                sOut += s + "\t" + ctime(time());
            }
        }       
    }
   
    sOut += "\n";
   
    ferr->Write(sOut);
  }) {
    // One reason for this might be too little stack space, which
    // easily can occur for "out of stack" errors. It should help to
    // tune up the STACK_MARGIN values in interpret.c then.
    werror("Error in handle_error in master object:\n");
    if(catch {
      catch {
    if (catch {
      string msg = [string]x[0];
      werror("%s", msg);
      array bt = [array]x[1];
      werror("%O\n", bt);
    }) {
      werror("%O\n", x);
    }
      };
      werror("Original error:\n"
         "%O\n", trace);
    }) {
      werror("sprintf() failed to write error.\n");
    }
  }
}


now this is inside a modified master.pike. The code has worked on previous versions of pike. So not sure why it does not work now.