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Subject: Re: Chess program crash generator

Author: Pat King

Date: 10:53:44 05/10/05

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On May 10, 2005 at 13:14:01, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On May 10, 2005 at 13:01:22, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On May 10, 2005 at 12:57:55, Pat King wrote:
>>
>>>Not that anyone is interested, but it would surely crash my engine because it
>>>has more than 32 pieces. Why should I care?
>>
>>In case someone inputs a bad FED or EPD, it would be better to diagnose the
>>problem than to overwrite memory and cause demons to fly out of your nose.
>
>See:
>http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.std.c/msg/dfe1ef367547684b?hl=en
>
>>Unless you want to be able to solve goofy chess problems, in which case you
>>would dimention your arrays a bit larger.

Point taken -- My program fails in an innocuous, if annoying, manner :)



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