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From: adb@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Adam Bryant)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Ularn bug -- selling the same gem more than once
Message-ID: <34458@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 10 Jul 89 18:01:53 GMT
References: <114443@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: adb@bu-cs.bu.edu (Adam Bryant)
Followup-To: comp.sources.games.bugs
Organization: Boston University Distributed Systems Group
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In article <114443@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> kcr%rushforth@Sun.COM (Kevin Rushforth) writes:
>There is a bug in larn that was carried over into Ularn which allows
>one to sell a gem an unlimited number of times.  To reproduce this

>Following is a fix for this bug.  It is a patch that should be applied
>to store.c -- this patch works for larn as well as Ularn.
>

You really don't need to create the extra loop to fix that bug.
The array gemvalue is declared as a static array and therefore saves
its value between calls to the function.

Simply remove the word 'static' from the declaration of gemvalue
and the problem will be solved.

adam