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Subject: Re: Crash when trying to bench Crafty

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 18:13:28 06/01/99

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On June 01, 1999 at 20:43:02, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>I've tried three executables under NT (4.0 SP5, dual PII-300, 128MB ram)... all
>are crashing when I type "bench", but seem to work fine for normal use!  I'm
>sure this works for most people, so something must be wrong with my setup.
>
>Here's the crafty.rc:
>
>mt=2
>display changes
>display extstats
>display hashstats
>display movenum
>display moves
>display stats
>display time
>display variation
>hash 48M
>hashp 4M
>
>Here's what wcrafty-16.8-smp.exe says on startup:
>
>EPD Kit revision date: 1996.04.21
>unable to open book file [./book.bin] for"write".
>learning is disabled
>unable to open book file [./books.bin].
>max threads set to 2
>display PV each time it changes.
>display extended statistics at end of each search.
>              clearing hash tables
>display move numbers in variations.
>display ply-1 moves as they are searched.
>display statistics at end of each search.
>display time for moves played in game.
>display PV at end of each iteration.
>hash table memory = 48M bytes.
>pawn hash table memory = 4M bytes.
>
>Crafty v16.8 (2 cpus)
>
>White(1):
>
>When I type "bench" (sans quotes), I get a nice popup dialog:
>
>    wcrafty-16.8-smp.exe - Application Error
>
>    The instruction at "0x0045ae59" referenced memory at "0x0000000c". The
>    memory could not be "read".
>
>    Click on OK to terminate the application
>    Click on CANCEL to debug the application
>
>                               [OK][Cancel]
>
>
>Anyone out there who has seen this problem and knows how to fix it?
>
>Dave

It crashes because you don't have the book files.  If you have them, it doesn't
crash. :)

Jeremiah



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