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Subject: Re: CM8000: Known bugs reported by users

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 18:04:55 11/21/00

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>-- Of course, two users have reported that the program fails to run AT ALL on
>Windows 2000. They, sadly, are told that the program does not officially support
>Windows 2000 and that their best bet is to return it. It is unknown what is
>causing this problem.

Ugh.

>-- Fixed a bug that would cause the "Positions" columns in the Thinking Lines
>window to display incorrectly after approximately 2.1 billion positions had been
>seen. These columns will now "wrap" their values (i.e. display incorrect data)
>after approximately 4.2 billion positions, but this is unavoidable. On a typical
>machine (Pentium III - 600 Mhz, for example) this will not occur until 30 or
>more hours have passed, given a typical midgame position.

Doesn't the compiler being used have any support for 64-bit integers?  Some of
us freaks occasionally set up a position and let the computer crank for days! ;)

Dave



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