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Subject: Re: Crafty 15.19 Tablebase problems

Author: Peter Herttrich

Date: 07:51:52 09/17/98

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On September 17, 1998 at 08:58:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 17, 1998 at 05:45:44, Peter Herttrich wrote:
>
>>On September 15, 1998 at 18:01:11, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On September 15, 1998 at 17:52:19, Paul Massie wrote:
>>>
>>>>I rebuilt books.bin.  15.19 now sees the book and plays a couple of book moves.
>>>>It then fails the same way, still on move 3.  15.18 runs fine on the new book.
>>>>15.19 still sees different moves in the book than does 15.19.
>>
>>Same problem here with the 3. move under linux compiled with the
>>pentium-compiler. Crafty crashes with the 3. bookmove segfault with core-
>>dump. What I saw in the Makefile, Bob, the CPU=-m486 ? No pentiumpro?
>>Never had this problem with earlier versions.
>>Perhaps some compiler have problems wit the new code?
>>
>>
>>Peter
>
>
>this is now fixed.  I added some code for "BTFraise" (Data on ICC) so that he
>could put moves in the books.bin file and they would be played even if they were
>not in the book.bin file.  There was a bug in this code that didn't hurt
>anything on my linux box, but with different compilers it wrecked things.  A
>variable was undefined on occasion, but with my compiler it was always "0" which
>made it work fine.  On others it could be a large positive or negative value
>which would crash...
>
>new sources and win executables are up...


Great! Thanks a lot!

Peter



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