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+<!DOCTYPE concept
+  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
+<concept id="GUID-A294084E-B5BB-54C6-A622-49F20E8C927B" xml:lang="en"><title>System Panic
+Reference</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
+<p>Some types of error are due to bad program code, such as passing an illegal
+parameter value. When this type of error is discovered, the thread associated
+with the erroneous program should be terminated. On the Symbian platform,
+this is a referred to as a <i>panic</i>. The only proper response to a panic
+is to fix the program code. </p>
+<p>Typically, a panic is not discovered by the program that made the error,
+but by some library code which operates on behalf of that program. If the
+library code is in a DLL running in the same thread as the program, it calls <xref href="GUID-C197C9A7-EA05-3F24-9854-542E984C612D.dita#GUID-C197C9A7-EA05-3F24-9854-542E984C612D/GUID-D64BDAEB-AB87-37ED-9F4C-99516B40FFB8"><apiname>User::Panic()</apiname></xref> to
+panic the thread. If the library code is in a server executing on behalf of
+another program, the server panics the client thread by calling <xref href="GUID-78E0DEDD-C020-3174-AD0A-E4C18C4C9213.dita#GUID-78E0DEDD-C020-3174-AD0A-E4C18C4C9213/GUID-D88B9AD0-10A6-38F0-9A58-5C40AD811D6E"><apiname>RMessagePtr2::Panic()</apiname></xref>,
+where <xref href="GUID-78E0DEDD-C020-3174-AD0A-E4C18C4C9213.dita"><apiname>RMessagePtr2</apiname></xref> is the handle to the message sent by
+the client to the server. </p>
+<p>Panics are characterized by two pieces of information: </p>
+<ul>
+<li id="GUID-237C51CA-6A12-5D15-A0F3-D64A22381C47"><p> <i>category</i> - a
+string of up to sixteen characters, which defines the context
+of a panic.</p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-99B0F1AA-F0B7-527A-99D7-DFE1FAB0C292"><p> <i>panic number</i> -
+a number that, in the context of a category, identifies the specific cause
+of the panic. </p> </li>
+</ul>
+<p>The following lists the panics by panic category. Follow the links to see
+the panic numbers associated with that category together with a description
+of what the panics mean. </p>
+</conbody></concept>
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