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From: mike@cs.keele.ac.uk (Michael A. Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Compiler error in Galatic Bloodshed
Message-ID: <597@kl-cs.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 11:49:41 GMT
References: <753@ultb.UUCP>
Organization: University of Keele, England
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> In article <4968@bunker.UUCP> elliott@clunker.UUCP (Elliott Kleinrock) writes:
>>While making GB I  got:
>>
>>cc -DVER_4.3 -pipe -g -c makeplanet.c
>>"makeplanet.c", line 289: compiler error: expression causes compiler loop: try simplifying
>>*** Exit 1
>>

Just a few comments.  I tried making GB under Ultrix 2.2. After getting many
errors I finally cludged the header files to remove the size limitations on
the structure components, ie changed all the 1..17 bit ones to int. This
will get rid of any segmentation violation errors you have. It compiled after
that, right up to this loop. I cannot remember what I changed but it went away.

On of my major gripes is the way that things like the data files are defined
in a .h file... and then used with explicit paths in half the files!!.

I spent quite a while going through it sorting out all of the
"idiocincracies" like that.

There is also a bug in the planet.list file... it creates a universe with 3
systems... not 30 as per the README... it is simple to fix.


It looks promising but is too "young" to play yet. Post it again when it is
finished and a lot more people might play it.


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