Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:57:15 +0100 From: Jurjen Middendorp <jurjenm@stack.nl> To: clemens fischer <ino-news@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org> Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: reviving games/freebsd-games Message-ID: <20081028105715.GA33501@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <20081027202219.GE2435@spotteswoode.de.eu.org> References: <ariht5xulu1.ln2@nntp.spotteswoode.dnsalias.org> <20081027200749.GB29814@icarus.home.lan> <20081027202219.GE2435@spotteswoode.de.eu.org>
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:22:19PM +0100, clemens fischer wrote:
>> Jeremy Chadwick:
>
>> I think the bottom line here is that until someone steps up and
>> actually volunteers to fix the code, it will remain broken. (I don't
>> normally tote this attitude, but in this case it's applicable: this is
>> a volunteer project! :-) )
>
>That's why I want to try my skills on it. I found the emails you cited,
>but they didn't help much.
>
>Gdb(1) is no mystery to me, and it told me where larn crashes. Doing
>"scrollname[i][0]=' '" with "char *scrollname[] = {"\0something",...}"
>shouldn't cause a SIGSEGV as far as I know.
>
>regards, clemens
If you do char *p = "something", you can't write to that string (it's a
pointer into some stringtable: easy way to look at it :). You have to use
char p[] = "something", then it's an array with enough storage to write to :)
maybe try something like char scrollname[NUMSCROLLS][]; ?
greetings,
Jurjen.
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