rrmorris@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Rodney Raym Morrison) (04/21/91)
I believe I havethe latest version of Spice for the amiga, but it always crashes on my 3000. It worked fine for my 2000. One of the reasons I got a 3000 was forthe extra speed for things like Spice. Does anyone know of a version that works on the A3000? Or will there be a release for the faster processors? rrmorris@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu
jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) (04/27/91)
In article <1991Apr20.224647.20242@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> rrmorris@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Rodney Raym Morrison) writes: > >I believe I havethe latest version of Spice for the amiga, but it always >crashes on my 3000. It worked fine for my 2000. One of the reasons I got >a 3000 was forthe extra speed for things like Spice. > Does anyone know of a version that works on the A3000? > Or will there be a release for the faster processors? Common causes of things like this are a) using the high byte of the address for flags (big no-no, GNU emacs does this), b) writing 81 bytes including null into an 80 byte string (with <16M address space, the 0 usually overwrites a 0-byte in a pointer. 'Less' had this problem, overwriting a return address on A3000's.) There are others, but those are the biggies for non-game software. Tools like 'enforcer' are good at catching these problems (though munged pointers require some expertise to track down). -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion. Thus spake the Master Ninjei: "To program a million-line operating system is easy, to change a man's temperament is more difficult." (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)