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From: joel@dtscp1.UUCP (Joel Rives)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Conquer 4 core dump
Message-ID: <813@dtscp1.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 89 13:30:37 GMT
References: <3448@uokmax.UUCP> <810@dtscp1.UUCP> <905@key.COM>
Reply-To: joel@dtscp1.UUCP (Joel Rives)
Organization: Digital Transmission Systems (a subsidiary of DCA), Duluth, GA
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In article <905@key.COM> perry@arkon.key.COM (Perry The Cynic) writes:
>
>Check out newworl.c, the declaration of newstring[40]. The [40] is grievously
>too small, causing a sprintf to it to overflow and spill dirt onto the stack.
>Upon return, this garbles the frame pointer, and things get extremely random
>from then on.
>
>Make newstring larger (1000 should do), and THIS bug goes away. Stupid, really;
>how could this ever work?
>  -- perry

Yo perry!

	Is this a joke or what? I mean, here you go spouting off about
the stupidity of someone elses coding -- all the while, making reference
to a source file in this persons distribution that doesn't even exist.
Are we suppose to believe you did this ON PURPOSE :-)

	Pretty funny, if you ask me!

						Joel