[comp.sources.games.bugs] Nethack crashes after picking chara

renner@m.cs.uiuc.edu (08/23/89)

> We can start the program up, it allows us to pick a character, then there is
> a dramatic pause, followed by a segmentation (memory) fault.

| I'm having the same problem using an IBM RT running AIX 2.2.1.  I'd 
| appreciate finding out what this problem is.  I compiled the program 
| with SYS V defined.  Thanks in advance.

I'm running nethack 3.0 on an RT with AIX 2.2.1.  I tracked this problem 
to trouble with signed/unsigned characters.  In "config.h", change the
declarations of schar and uchar from chars to short ints and your trouble
should go away.
============
Scott Renner 					USENET: pur-ee!uiucdcs!renner
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign      ARPA:   renner@cs.uiuc.edu