mann@Shasta.ARPA (08/20/85)
Thought I'd pass on this bug report, to see if anyone else has seen this problem, and perhaps fixed it. ----- Date: 19 Aug 1985 2158-PDT (Monday) From: Lance Berc <lance> To: mann Subject: Hack crash Hack crashed after I went down from a level that had a shop keeper looking for me. It was in onbill. The stack dump is: inshop+? obfree+14 useup+42 doread+FC4 rhack+23C main+A02 TeamRoot+264 I was in the process of reading a scroll at the time. Needless to say, I was in the middle of a great game (many rings, thousands of gold pieces, 59 hit points, etc.) Oh well. lance ---------- The crash was in the first call to onbill() in obfree() -- the one in the initializer for "bp". Not sure exactly where in onbill it crashed, but the cause was dereferencing a null or garbage pointer. --Tim
mendell@utai.UUCP (Mark Mendell) (08/23/85)
That crash has occurred running on SUN 68010 systems here. The problem is
that the billcnt field in the shopkeepers record gets trashed to very large
value (>> BILLSZ). I was not able to figure out what part of the program was
doing the trashing.
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Mark Mendell
Computer Systems Research Institute University of Toronto
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