Re: [Bug-gnubg] Crash on Windows when entering PosID

[Jim Segrave]

On Thu 10 Oct 2002 (14:04 +0200), address@hidden wrote:
> > On Tue 08 Oct 2002 (23:48 +0200), Holger wrote:
> > > I was just looking through the mailing list archive and tried some
> > > things mentioned. When I do the following GNUbg (Windows 021006)
> > > crashs:
> > > 
> > > Start a new game - Paste PosID: 8AAMB0N0AEBg (*) into the appropiate
> > > field - press RETURN. That's it.
> > > 
> > > (*) From a post of ?ystein on Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:58:43
> > > PosID: 8AAMB0N0AEBg
> > > MatchID: UYkUAAAAAAAA
> > 
> > It doesn't crash gnubg under Unix, the PosID is ignored, as it is not
> > valid.
> > 
> > The actual position ID from the posting is j/8AAMB0N0AEBg, which does
> > set up a perfectly reasonable looking board.
> 
> On Windows it does crash, at least with the stated (maybe illegal) PosID.
> With other, nonsense IDs GNUbg gave a proper warning. With the PosID above it
> does not.
> 
> Btw, the message I was refering to:
> 
>   ?ystein Johansen address@hidden  Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:58:43 +0000 
> 
>   [snip]
>   I just reached this position in a moneygame session:
> 
>   PosID: 8AAMB0N0AEBg
>   MatchID: UYkUAAAAAAAA
>   [snip]

Yep - but look at the next message he posted on on 22 July, which is
where I got the j/... version. But I did try the invalid one several
times with and without the match ID and couldn't make it fail.

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden