# Mysterious messages printed on Julia 0.7

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mysterious-messages-printed-on-julia-0-7/4888>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [July 16, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mysterious-messages-printed-on-julia-0-7/4888 "2017-07-16T21:29:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mysterious-messages-printed-on-julia-0-7/4888/1 "2017-07-16T21:29:30Z")

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On commit [`526b83e3f1`](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/526b83e3f168ef74515d73918135936565f80078) I’m seeing this strange message:

```julia
julia> using SpecialFunctions

julia> erfcinv(0.5)
in erfcinv at /home/mose/.julia/v0.7/SpecialFunctions/src/erf.jl
0.4769362762044699

julia> erfcinv(0.5)
0.4769362762044699

```

The message “`in erfcinv at /home/mose/.julia/v0.7/SpecialFunctions/src/erf.jl`” is shown only on the first call to the function. Does someone have a clue about where this message comes from?

Note that the message is printed also without loading `SpecialFunctions`, so it has nothing to do with the package, the only difference is that an error is printed in this case because the function was moved to an external package.

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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mysterious-messages-printed-on-julia-0-7/4888/2 "2017-07-16T22:10:12Z")

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Culprit found after bisection: [PR#22763](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/22763). The message is mentioned there.

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**Author:** ![stevengj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stevengj/32/71_2.png) [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 1:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mysterious-messages-printed-on-julia-0-7/4888/3 "2017-07-17T01:43:41Z")

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Fixed in [https://github.com/JuliaMath/SpecialFunctions.jl/pull/36](https://github.com/JuliaMath/SpecialFunctions.jl/pull/36), though Julia should also be updated to give a better error message (the problem was SpecialFunctions importing a deprecated binding).