On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Tony Robbins wrote:
>BTW, this apparently is a bug in DG pl4.
>
>For room reset triggers, I was getting crashes every few hours, so I put in
>log statements to find out what numbers it was crashing on. It cycled
>through the room numbers for reset triggers, but apparently this:
>
>if (room_rnum) reset_wtrigger(&world[room_rnum]);
>
>...does not account for rnum of -1 (NOWHERE). What fixed it for me (no
>more crashes from it, been up for nearly two days), was to change it to:
>
>if (room_rnum != NOWHERE) reset_wtrigger(&world[room_rnum]);
>
>...which as repaired it and the triggers still work. However, in hindsight
>I wonder, is a room_rnum of 0 legal? Seems to me it would be, and point to
>Limbo or the Void or whatever.
Yup, this code dies horribly on my glibc-based Linux system but runs fine
on my libc5-based one (but with corruption). You're correct in that room
number 0 if valid and -1 is not.
Hope this won't become a FAQ. :)
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