Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 07:59:14 10/22/02
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On October 22, 2002 at 10:56:49, Sune Fischer wrote:
>On October 22, 2002 at 10:39:57, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>
>>On October 22, 2002 at 10:13:11, Sune Fischer wrote:
>>
>>>I'm trying to implement support for the
>>>Nalimov endgame tables and are having a minor(?) problem.
>>>
>>>By reading the source of Beowulf and the probe.txt file
>>>I have managed to initialize the tables and probing is also
>>>partly successful. It findes the table, but probing it
>>>doesn't work:
>>>
>>>value = L_TbtProbeTable(iTB, colour, index);
>>>if(value == L_bev_broken) return 0;
>>>
>>>I get the return here.
>>
>>Did you initialize with the call FTbSetCacheSize() first? I'm not sure at the
>>moment, but I think I had a similar problem, and I forgot to initialize the
>>cache. (I thought this is optional and I can do it later)
>>
>>Just an idea - maybe I'm completely wrong.
>>
>>Sargon
>
>I think so, I pretty much pasted from Beowulf (cudos to Colin!)
>
>
>/* Setup the data structures needed for the EGTB access code */
>void InitialiseTB(void) {
> fprintf(stdout,"Checking for Tablebase Files\n");
> LargestTB = IInitializeTb(TB_PATH);
> if(LargestTB != 0) {
> void *TBCache = malloc(CACHE_SIZE);
> if (TBCache == NULL) {
> fprintf(stdout,"Not Enough memory for EGTBs!\n");
> LargestTB=0;
> return;
> }
> fprintf(stdout,"Including %d-man Endgame Table Bases\n", LargestTB);
> FTbSetCacheSize(TBCache, CACHE_SIZE);
> }
>}
>
>I used 2 MB cache, but there might be a problem because the task manager didn't
>indicate any allocation of 2 extra megabytes.
>"LargestTB" is the correctly spotted as 4 (since I don't have 5 man at the
>moment), so something is working.
>
>-S.
You could check the return value of FTbSetCacheSize. Again, I'm just guessing
wildly. :) Good luck!
Sargon
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