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Understanding the alert error numbers

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Format of the alert error number

The 32 bit long error number consists of 4 segments. Amiga displays the number in hexadecimal and in a general format it looks like this:

0xDIGGSSSS

The letters have the following meaning:

Letters in Code Description Bits Length (bits)
D Alert type: DeadEnd (bit 31 is set) or RecoveryAlert (bit 31 is not set) 31 1
I ROM subsystem number 30...24 7
GG General error: roughly indicates what the error was 23...16 8
SSSS Specific error: indicates more detail 15...0 16

Hardware and CPU specific alerts

Alert Type Description
0x00000002 Recoverable Hardware bus fault or access error
0x00000003 Recoverable Illegal address access i.e. odd address
0x00000004 Recoverable Illegal instruction
0x00000005 Recoverable Divide by zero
0x00000006 Recoverable Check instruction error
0x00000007 Recoverable TrapV instruction error
0x00000008 Recoverable Privilege violation error
0x00000009 Recoverable Trace error
0x0000000A Recoverable Line 1010 Emulator error
0x0000000B Recoverable Line 1111 Emulator error
0x0000000E Recoverable Stack frame format error
0x00000018 Recoverable Spurious interrupt error
0x00000019 Recoverable AutoVector Level 1 interrupt error
0x0000001A Recoverable AutoVector Level 2 interrupt error
0x0000001B Recoverable AutoVector Level 3 interrupt error
0x0000001C Recoverable AutoVector Level 4 interrupt error
0x0000001D Recoverable AutoVector Level 5 interrupt error
0x0000001E Recoverable AutoVector Level 6 interrupt error
0x0000001F Recoverable AutoVector Level 7 interrupt error
0x80000002 Dead end Hardware bus fault or access error
0x80000003 Dead end Illegal address access i.e. odd address
0x80000004 Dead end Illegal instruction
0x80000005 Dead end Divide by zero
0x80000006 Dead end Check instruction error
0x80000007 Dead end TrapV instruction error
0x80000008 Dead end Privilege violation error
0x80000009 Dead end Trace error
0x8000000A Dead end Line 1010 Emulator error
0x8000000B Dead end Line 1111 Emulator error
0x8000000E Dead end Stack frame format error
0x80000018 Dead end Spurious interrupt error
0x80000019 Dead end AutoVector Level 1 interrupt error
0x8000001A Dead end AutoVector Level 2 interrupt error
0x8000001B Dead end AutoVector Level 3 interrupt error
0x8000001C Dead end AutoVector Level 4 interrupt error
0x8000001D Dead end AutoVector Level 5 interrupt error
0x8000001E Dead end AutoVector Level 6 interrupt error
0x8000001F Dead end AutoVector Level 7 interrupt error

General alerts

Alert Type Description
0x00010000 Recoverable No memory
0x00020000 Recoverable Make library error
0x00030000 Recoverable Open library error
0x00040000 Recoverable Open device error
0x00050000 Recoverable Open resource error
0x00060000 Recoverable IO error
0x00070000 Recoverable No signal
0x00080000 Recoverable Bad parameter
0x00090000 Recoverable Too many library closes
0x000A0000 Recoverable Too many device closes
0x000B0000 Recoverable Process creation failed
0x000C0000 Recoverable Obsolete feature used
0x00008001 Recoverable Exec library error
0x00008002 Recoverable Graphics library error
0x00008003 Recoverable Layers library error
0x00008004 Recoverable Intuition library error
0x00008005 Recoverable Math library error
0x00008007 Recoverable DOS library error
0x00008008 Recoverable RAM library error
0x00008009 Recoverable Icon library error
0x0000800A Recoverable Expansion library error
0x0000800B Recoverable Diskfont library error
0x0000800C Recoverable Utility library error
0x0000800D Recoverable KeyMap library error
0x0000800E Recoverable Newlib library error
0x00008010 Recoverable Audio device error
0x00008011 Recoverable Console device error
0x00008012 Recoverable GamePort device error
0x00008013 Recoverable Keyboard device error
0x00008014 Recoverable TrackDisk device error
0x00008015 Recoverable Timer device error
0x00008020 Recoverable CIA resource error
0x00008021 Recoverable Disk resource error
0x00008022 Recoverable Misc resource error
0x00008030 Recoverable BootStrap error
0x00008031 Recoverable Workbench error
0x00008032 Recoverable DiskCopy error
0x00008033 Recoverable GadTools error
0x00008035 Recoverable Unknown error

Specific alerts

Exec library

Alert Type Description
0x01000000 Recoverable Exec library error
0x01000001 Recoverable 68000 exception vector checksum (OBSOLETE)
0x01000002 Recoverable Execbase checksum error (OBSOLETE)
0x01000003 Recoverable Library checksum failure
0x01000004 Recoverable Interface checksum failure
0x81000005 Dead end Corrupt memory list detected in FreeMem
0x81000006 Dead end No memory for interrupt servers
0x01000007 Recoverable InitStruct() of an APTR source (OBSOLETE)
0x01000008 Recoverable A semaphore is in an illegal state at ReleaseSemaphore()
0x01000009 Recoverable Freeing memory already freed
0x8100000A Dead end Illegal 68k exception taken (OBSOLETE)
0x0100000B Recoverable Attempt to reuse active IORequest
0x0100000C Recoverable Sanity check on memory list failed during AvailMem(MEMF_LARGEST)
0x0100000D Recoverable IO attempted on closed IORequest
0x0100000E Recoverable Stack appears to extend out of range
0x0100000F Recoverable Memory header not allocated. Usually an invalid address passed to FreeMem()
0x01000010 Recoverable An attempt was made to use the old message semaphores
0x01000011 Recoverable A bad memory request was made - Realloc on non-allocated memory
0x01000012 Recoverable An uninitialized hook was called

Graphics library

Alert Type Description
0x02000000 Recoverable Graphics library error
0x82010000 Dead end Graphics out of memory
0x82010001 Dead end MonitorSpec alloc, no memory
0x82010006 Dead end Long frame, no memory
0x82010007 Dead end Short frame, no memory
0x02010009 Recoverable Text, no memory for TmpRas
0x8201000A Dead end BltBitMap, no memory
0x8201000B Dead end Regions, memory not available
0x82010030 Dead end MakeVPort, no memory
0x0200000C Recoverable New error
0x0200000D Recoverable Free error
0x82011234 Dead end Emergency memory not available
0x02000401 Recoverable Unsupported font description used

Graphics library