Nasty bug - close to tracking it down

by thirdrock on 05/08/2004 10:36, 3 messages, last message: 05/09/2004 10:42, 837 views, last view: 04/28/2024 14:32

Hello,
Not sure if this is the right place to post bug reports but I couldn't find anywhere else . Anyway ....

If you load a quicksave game and then die, something goes wrong in function "loadgamerest" and you get the error message "savefile game corrupt" from the gzcheck function.

I spent about four hours on this bug today and as far as I can tell it had something to do with the variable gzFile f being declared multiple times at both the global and local level, but I am not 100% sure that this is the problem.


I am using NT4 sp6 and VC6. I had to make two changes to get cube to compile under VC6, something about the compiler complaining about "void function can't return a value", but apart from that, it compiles and runs fine.

I think when it gets to the loadgamerest function, f should be NULL, but it isn't because of the scope ambiguity. I remember having a problem like this before with VC6.

Anyway, if this is not clear, feel free to e-mail me.
Ian

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by Aardappel on 05/08/2004 21:28

I am pretty sure I fixed this bug for the new release. at least on my machine the sequence: start sp map -> quicksave -> quickload -> die, does not cause a crash.

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#2: Which release?

by thirdrock on 05/09/2004 10:28

I thought I had the latest release, which release do you mean?

Also, I noticed there is no CVS on the sourceforge site, how often is cube released?

Thanks,
Ian

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#3: Re: Which release?

by Aardappel on 05/09/2004 10:42, refers to #2

the upcoming release... its not out yet. and no, cube is not under CVS.

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