Help Weird Error Messages Connecting Externals on USB

Question

Hi,
For some reason very recently everytime I plug in a peripheral into the usb port I get a weird error message and the units (like an external HD, external DVD burner, etc.) won't work. The errors are something like:
The system extensions/system/library/extensions/systems/kext plugins/libkern.kext was installed improperly and can not be used. Please reinstall ir or contact the products vendor for an update.
Ohter error with the have the same message but file components change like:
iousbfamily.kext
bsdkernel.kext
mach.kext
udf.kext
system.kext
unsupported.kext
Anybody have a clue? Thanks

Answer 1

Yes, you should absolutely report it as a bug.
But this is a problem in error reporting, not in valid code compilation, because the code
cannot compile -- so don't expect to impart much momentum on a fix without additional community support.
There's very clearly a coding problem that the static function f cannot access the non-static member
g.
To estimate the risk of more serious problems with the compiler, I investigated the two closest scenarios for making the code legal.  If you either:
make g a static member (and give it storage), or
make f a non-static function (and call it with an instance of A)
...then the code is valid and the compiler doesn't ICE in either case.
So the severity of this problem is very low because, as you said, this ICE seems to occur only when there is an error in the code.