Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!littlei!donk!ajw
From: ajw@donk.UUCP (ajw)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Attempting to compile ADL; a quick question
Keywords: A fix
Message-ID: <141@donk.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 88 19:21:38 GMT
Organization: DTO, Intel Corporation; Hillsboro, OR
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A while ago, dean@coplex.UUCP (Dean Brooks) wrote:

>    Let me clarify a few of the problems I have had with this.  It seems
> that ADLRUN does weird things (like core dump or ignore all input) whenever
> I compile ANY adventure.  This includes EVERY sample game released with
> ADL (let alone any I would write).

I had just the symptoms you described when porting ADL to the
Atari ST, which is 68K-based.  Eventually, I found the bug
causing the problem; it might work for you too.

In .../adlcomp/routcomp.c, change the last statement of getglob() from
	newcode ( CALL, 2L );
to
	newcode ( CALL, (int16) 2 );

-- Alan Waldock      ...uunet!littlei!ihf1!mdt!ajw      ajw@mdt.hf.intel.com
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