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30 Jul 2024 18:18:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: beta5 crashes with params.inc  
From: Mike Williams
Date: 8 Oct 2001 21:56:42
Message: <TsCPWBAOfew7EwUH@econym.demon.co.uk>
Wasn't it Warp who wrote:
>Mick Hazelgrove <mic### [at] mhazelgrovefsnetcouk> wrote:
>: PVENGINE caused a stack fault in module PVENGINE.EXE at 0187:0046dd9b.
>
>  This stack fault thing is known. At least loops cause it and perhaps other
>things.
>  So everyone: If you get a "stack fault" like that, you don't need to report
>it anymore.
>
>  (I don't know what is the problem, but it might be an intel-compiler thing;
>either it's misconfigured or buggy...)
>

I suspected that there might possibly be a miscompile when I noticed
that pvengine.exe is much larger than it has ever been before. The beta
4 pvengine.exe was 2.14Mb and the beta 5 one is 3.05 Mb.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure


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