Follow-up Comment #20, bug #17962 (project freeciv): Thanks to some Windows builds provided by cazfi, I'm reasonably convinced that the patch has indeed fixed the problems described in this bug.
Gory details for the record only: *Official 2.3.0-beta4 build from Sourceforge <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freeciv/Freeciv-2.3.0-beta4-win32-gtk2-setup.exe?download>* (control 1; expected result: fail): * Reproduced comment #0: start standalone server; "set size 80"; "set minplayers 1"; "start" => server silently dies (last output is "2: Creating a map of size 348 x 232 = 80736 tiles (80000 requested).", even with "-d 3") * Reproduced GM1530's huge-scenario woes (comment #4): ** The one remaining map linked here (earth-500x250-v1.0.sav.gz) silently kills a standalone server ** A random selection of maps marked as troublesome in the forum topic <http://forum.freeciv.org/viewtopic.php?t=6328> do indeed kill the server *** europe-350x350-v1.1.sav.gz *** northamerica-350x350-v1.1.sav.gz ** A selection of maps marked as OK are indeed OK *** europe-332x264-v1.8.sav.gz *** europe-350x350-v1.0.sav.gz *** northamerica-350x350-v1.0.sav.gz *cazfi's S2_3 r19844 snapshot + winstack-0.6.4* (control 2; expected result: fail): * standalone server with "/size 80": died more noisily (and Googling suggests that "Exception Code: c00000fd" is indeed a stack overflow): freeciv-server.exe has stopped working Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: freeciv-server.exe Application Version: 0.0.0.0 Application Timestamp: 4e03c79a Fault Module Name: freeciv-server.exe Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0 Fault Module Timestamp: 4e03c79a Exception Code: c00000fd Exception Offset: 00092625 OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 2057 Additional Information 1: 5f0e Additional Information 2: 5f0e4e86d1f362c8309f9d0145aace82 Additional Information 3: 4b7b Additional Information 4: 4b7b7a98e01bbd2a5ea7b7294f6a669d *cazfi's S2_3 r19947 snapshot + winstack-0.6.5.103* (under test; expected result: pass): * "/set size 80": works fine * loading all of the scenarios mentioned works fine _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://gna.org/bugs/?17962> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Gna! http://gna.org/ _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev