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From: edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett)
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: A slight problem with othello/reversi
Message-ID: <158@ukecc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 16:53:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: ukecc.158
Posted: Sun Jul 14 16:53:24 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jul-85 08:18:54 EDT
Organization: Univ. of Ky. Engineering Computing Center
Lines: 21
Keywords: int vs. char


	In the recent Othello game that was posted there is one
major problem.
	Originally the board is formed of chars. To distinguish
pieces, squares are set to 1 for white, -1 for black. The problem
is that a char can't hold -1. (Sometimes they can, it depends how
your machine handles sign extension) To be technically correct,
change line 9 of reversi.h to:

typedef int	boardT[SIZE+2][SIZE+2];

	There are also some char-to-int changes to be made in move.c
and score.c. In several functions there are some register chars defined.
Make them register ints.

-- 
Edward C. Bennett

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