Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:11:45 02/04/03
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On February 04, 2003 at 22:44:59, Mike Byrne wrote:
>On February 04, 2003 at 17:01:28, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On February 04, 2003 at 14:38:31, Joshua Haglund wrote:
>>
>>>How come Crafty 19.12 crashes with winboard if it has a book with a different
>>>version of Crafty?
>>>
>>>It didn't do that before. I just didn't use the .bin files
>>>
>>>Any clues,
>>>
>>>Joshua
>>
>>Do you mean 19.2???
>>
>>It shouldn't crash, as the book format has not changed for a couple of years
>>now. If it
>>is crashing, that is unexpected behavior...
>
>Bob,
>
>this is the code that triggers it --
>"
> if (major<17 || (major==17 && minor<0)) {
> Print(4095,"\nERROR! book.bin not made by version 17.0 or later\n");
> fclose(book_file);
> fclose(books_file);
> book_file=0;
> books_file=0;
> }
>"
>
>if I comment this out - everything works. I do not create a new book very
>often, but I was just experimenting with a new book and I came accross the same
>problem. Something has change with the "version" check - but I am not sure
>what. I'm also not sure if it is strictly related to MSVC++ complies or all.
>If I use the book I had have for a while - it works. But I cannot create a new
>book that works unless I "comment out" this version check.
I'll look again. But I have created books within the last two weeks that
worked fine. In fact, I created one for the last CCT event.
However, that should _not_ make it "crash". Crafty simply won't use the
book. the original post suggested it was actually crashing and dumping
core, which seems strange...
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