Author: William Penn
Date: 09:00:50 03/13/04
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On March 13, 2004 at 11:46:51, F. Huber wrote: >On March 13, 2004 at 10:47:58, William Penn wrote: > >>On March 13, 2004 at 10:36:44, F. Huber wrote: >> >>>On March 13, 2004 at 09:24:50, William Penn wrote: >>> >>>>Fatal error when changing hash size in Shredder 8 (native CB GUI). This has >>>>happened many times. It doesn't always happen and seems unpredictable, but >>>>happens perhaps about 25% of the time. It may relate to having infinite >>>>analysis mode active & running when changing hash size, perhaps with several >>>>lines of analysis being produced, but I'm not sure. >>> >>>Changing hash size WHILE the engine is calculating??? >>>Do you really mean this seriously? >>>Sorry, but I´ve never before heared of trying such a nonsense! :-( >>> >>>Franz. >> >>The software should take care of such things automatically. This bug did not >>happen with Shredder 7. It is something new in Shredder 8. >>WP > >So what will you be trying next (and the software should take care of)? >Adding or removing memory modules, while the computer in ON >and Windows is running? ;-) >And then writing here again:"Windows bug - system crashes if ..." > >Franz. I realize that the software can't do everything. For example I won't expect it to put the tootepaste on my toothbrush in the morning. That would be asking too much... :o) However all software operations, and sequences of operations, in the software should be tested for bugs and should work automatically without fatal crashes. That's a reasonable expectation for all software. I know, because I used to write chess (and other) software! There were often bugs or quirks in the first version, but after some systematic debugging efforts, it was eventually 100% bug-free. That is usually possible provided only that the algorithm is sufficiently structured so that appropriate testing/debugging code can be inserted at appropriate points in the zen flowchart to test each of the modules. WP
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