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Subject: Re: Bizar Question for programmers: very strange behaviour of my engine

Author: James Swafford

Date: 08:54:29 01/17/06

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On January 17, 2006 at 11:27:35, James Swafford wrote:

>On January 16, 2006 at 16:22:10, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On January 16, 2006 at 16:16:13, JW de Kort wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>In my engine i want to use the following line:
>>
>>#include <assert.h>
>>...
>>
>>     assert(kol+1 < sizeof bfZwart / sizeof bfZwart[0]);
>>>    !(bfZwart[kol+1]&bfBoven[rij])
>
>That's probably it, but another (less likely) possibility is that
>the short-circuit evaluation is not attempting fetch the value from
>the bfBoven[] array unless kol+1 > 1 (making bfZwart[kol+1] true).
>
>In other words, is it the case that bfZwart[kol+1] always evaluates
>to false?  If so, I doubt the second part of the expression is even
>evaluated.  Like I said, not likely, but weird things happen.
>

By false/true I should say 'non-zero/zero', since we are dealing
with a bitwise operator.



>--
>James
>
>
>>>
>>>In only a few cases this lines crashes my engine. If i change the +1 to any
>>>other value there is no problem!
>>>
>>>Does anybody know were i have to look for to solve this problem? I do not
>>>understand how a comparison like the above can cause a program to crash.
>>>
>>>regards
>>>Jan Willem



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