No one has any idea at all?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris "Winston" Litchfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 5:22 PM Subject: Hashing function bug. In depth. > I have been experiencing a crash for the last year or so. This crash > happens as frequently as 2 times a day, and as infrequently as once a month. > This crash happens only when someone is load_char_obj(). > > The following is a more detailed information > > the crash occurs in fread_string and/or stread_string. (stread_string being > the later code I placed in after a ROM discussion a couple months back or > so). It happens at this assignment: > > u1.rgc[ic] = pHash[ic]; (db.c, fread_string or stread_string) > > Totally out of bounds memory. Some further information for those who know > the area of code. IT ALWAYS happens when iHash == 44. > > What I think could be happening is that something has broken the 4 byte > memory boundry that the routine searches to find specific strings to match > the incomming string. It is RANDOM in that I cannot seem to reproduce it at > will, and yet all the core files have this as the crash. > > I believe the crash corrupts the memory as I placed several local debug > variables around the code to trace how many times it looped, and those > values inside the debugger are "unknown variables". They have been whacked. > > Has anyone experienced this? Has anyone got suggestions on how to track > this down? It is a low frequency occurance but it is the ONLY crash bug I > have had in last 3 months (Stability is a goal). > > Chris "Winston" Litchfield > > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom > >
