Re: [OLC] [WIN95] <Pine.LNX.3.96.971107101447.5646C-100000@dragon.ham.muohio.edu>

From: Jeremy Elson (jelson@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 11/07/97


George writes:
>>However I am finding that there is still one l'il problem in 1.5 under
>>Windows 95.  I'm compiling it using MSVC4, and it crashes the very first
>>time you try to save a mob

>Ruling out the possibility of a memory overrun in your code, try to find
>out a dump of some kind.  Line number, memory, first time it happens, etc.
>It works ok on Solaris which is quite picky on memory...

I've actually found that Win95 has a pickier memory manager than any
version of UNIX.  When I first compiled Circle on Win95 several bugs
turned up that I'd never found before under any version of UNIX (bugs
of the form: free(something); do_something_with(something)).

J


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