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</div><!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> <div class="reduced-width"> <h2>A Swarm of Gnats</h2> <p class="infobox">From: <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=te&hl=te&u=http://www.stallman.org/">Richard Stallman</a> <rms@gnu.org><br> Subject: GNU pun<br> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 23:55:07 -0500</p> <p>Someone found a way to generate audio output from the data that GCC is handling. Using this to listen to the events leading up to an GNAT failure, he thought it reminded him of insects.</p> <p>So he asked a GNAT developer, “Is this the sound of a swarm of gnats?” The developer told him, “No, that's the song of the sick Ada.”</p> <div class="infobox" role="contentinfo"> <hr> <h3 id="Disclaimer">Disclaimer</h3> <p>The Free Software Foundation claims no copyright on this joke.</p> </div> </div> </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> <!-- begin server/footer-text.html --> <div style="clear:both"></div> <div id="mission-statement" role="complementary"> <div class="backtotop"> <hr class="no-display"><a href="https://www-gnu-org.translate.goog/fun/jokes/gcc_audio.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=te&_x_tr_hl=te#header"><span>BACK TO TOP </span>▲</a> </div> <div style="clear: both"></div> <blockquote> <p style="direction:ltr; text-align:left"><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=te&hl=te&u=https://www.fsf.org"><img id="fsfbanner" src="/graphics/fsf-logo-notext-small.png" alt=" [FSF logo] " width="75" height="25"></a><strong> “The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom. 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