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From: pwing@apple.UUCP (Philip L. Wing)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: omega core bug
Summary: "Vax"s crash two...
Message-ID: <7289@apple.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 22:47:40 GMT
References: <1466@uhccux.UUCP> <1966@munnari.oz>
Organization: The Orchard
Lines: 32

In article <1966@munnari.oz>, davids@munnari.oz (David Spaziani) writes:
> in article <1466@uhccux.UUCP>, carole@uhccux.UUCP (Carole Chang) says:
> > 
> > I've been repeatedly kicked out of the game Omega, with a message saying
> > something like, "Oops, I am getting a core dump signal!"  There seems
> > to be no "core" file left from the dump, and it only seems to happen after
> > killing a sewer rat.  Does anyone know anything about this?
> 
> The same bug appears in my copy of Omega. The core dump is produced
> after killing the last monster on a level. The piece of offending code
> is found at the very end of "otime.c"
> 
> 	.
> 	.
> 	prevml = ml;
> 	ml = ml->next;
> 	}
>       }
> 
> This is OK until ml = NULL, at which point omega crashes. The simple fix
> is obviously to add
> 
> 	if (ml != NULL) ml = ml->next;
> 
> The moral of the story, I guess, is that all the world is not a Vax :-)

Nope.  I can try the fix, but I was crashing on a 780 under Ultrix 1.2. (
Yes, the sysops have 2.0, but they haven't set it up yet...)

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				Philip L. Wing