Re: Strange Crash

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 02/20/98


On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, John Evans wrote:

>#0  0x40033b8d in _IO_default_xsputn ()

That function is called during a *printf().

./libio/libioP.h:/* The 'xsputn' hook writes upto N characters from buffer DATA.

>The next time the mob_pulse hits, I get this funky crash and a
>pointless(?) gdb output.

I just saw that yesterday when I had a buffer overrun because I had
MAX_TITLE_LENGTH at 256 and the pfile still had 80. (And didn't think it
was corrupted...)

So I'd say check your sprintf's.

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