Xref: utzoo rec.games.hack:4848 comp.sources.games.bugs:1142 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!edcastle!emct35 From: emct35@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jason Smith) Newsgroups: rec.games.hack,comp.sources.games.bugs Subject: Nethack crashes after picking character Keywords: GEC 63, Sys V, UX63 portable CC Message-ID: <97@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 11 Aug 89 15:52:17 GMT Reply-To: emct35@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jason Smith) Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service Lines: 17 We managed to get around the fact that our compiler is worse than DUMB, STUPID STUPID_CPP and DUMB.Setup expect. (By not including extern.h and declaring the minimum of stuff by hand) We can start the program up, it allows us to pick a character, then there is a dramatic pause, followed by a segmentation (memory) fault. This is on an ancient GEC63 machine running UX63 (SysV), and we can't get a new compiler. Sdb might have helped us, but the symbol table is far too big for the compiler to cope with, so no cc -g. We are using curses (no termlib). Can anyone out there help us ? advTHANKSance