Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 20:28:52 02/04/03
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On February 04, 2003 at 23:11:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>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...
for the pocket pc crafty -- it crashes ...for the pc crafty, it simply does not
use the book on my machine -- in winboard that could look like crash - since he
may be waiting a few minutes for a move (depending on this tc) and he might have
thought it crash ...but you're right - it doesn't crash on my machine
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