Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!davids
From: davids@munnari.oz (David Spaziani)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: omega core bug
Message-ID: <1966@munnari.oz>
Date: 28 Jan 88 06:33:56 GMT
References: <1466@uhccux.UUCP>
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
Lines: 33

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 :-)


  David Spaziani
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