The possible severity levels for diagnostic messages are as follows: S (success) I (informational) W (warning) E (error) F (fatal, or severe error) Success and informational messages inform you that the debugger has performed your request. Warning messages indicate that the debugger might have performed some, but not all, of your request and that you should verify the result. Error messages indicate that the debugger could not perform your request, but that the state of the debugging session was not changed. The only exceptions are if the message identifier was DBGERR or INTERR. These identifiers signify an internal debugger error, and you should submit a Software Performance Report (SPR) in such cases. Fatal messages indicate that the debugger could not perform your request and that the debugging session is in an indeterminate state from which you cannot recover reliably. Typically, the error ends the debugging session.