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Why are hardware manufacturers so incompetent when it comes to software? The wonderful message below was followed by three more equally insane error dialogs.

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  1. Bruce Shankle’s avatar

    That’s a typo in a printf (or sprintf) format specifier for showing something in hex. It should have been:
    sprintf(somestringtoshow, “Occurred system error! The error code is 0x%8x”, fooerror);

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