Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:14:21 08/17/98
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On August 17, 1998 at 09:21:02, William Dozier wrote: >Dear Robert: Question:1 Why all versions of crafty 14 work, with no >moedification for memory? And again version 15 wont work, no matter what >modifacation that i make in memory. So why do one work, and the other doesnt? >May i have some info on who is running all versions of craftt 15 on the Mac >Powepc, and what problems they encountered running this version; and how they >solve the problem. Thank You Robert. > > Respectfully/William The main difference is that in version 14, all the state-space memory was statically allocated. In version 15, all the state-space memory is allocated via malloc() at startup. The memory requirements are no different between the two versions, but perhaps the C compiler or MacOS is having problems with the initialization malloc() calls to set up the search data space...
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