Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 18:10:20 12/06/01
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On December 06, 2001 at 12:53:14, Severi Salminen wrote: >Hi! > >Don't ever, I mean never ever, disable "those stupid warnings you don't want to >see anymore because they mean nothing". Well, for some odd reason I had disabled >unary operator and type conversion warnings. Now I just removed the #pragma >directive and found a major bug! I was using a 32-bit integer as a temporary >variable to store a 64-bit bitboard - how smart of me!! Actually I'm surprised I >hadn't noticed it before as it should've had corrupted the board representation >badly every time there was pawn double move. Well, now my program plays at least >5 elos better ;) > >Severi I have all sorts of warnings enabled all the time, and also have tons of debug code to check sanity, that I can enable. It is an important part of developing such a thing as a chess program, IMO.
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