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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
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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