[CF-Devel] gcfclient without dmalloc segfaults

[Pertti Karppinen (OH6KTR)]

On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 03:16:14PM -0800, Mark Wedel wrote:
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       I've noticed this problem with running with purify at times.  The problem is
     
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      best I can tell the png.c file is correct now - the actual fault is happening
     
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      within the png library - I need to compile a debugged version of that and see
     
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      who is really at fault (ie, are we not passing an appropriately sized structure
     
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      to it, or is libpng broken in some obscure way)
     
     
Heh .. that would be a first: crossfire working but a supporting library is
broken. Looks like it might be the case here though.

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      > And 2nd note:
     
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      > We need a unique color for tell&say in gcfclient, as they trun white->black.
     
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      > Perhaps we need to add color to our selection? I vote for magenta, which
     
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      > displays with a lot of different background colors. (And is my favourite
     
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      > color along with pink)
     
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       What really needs to be done is change how the server communicates to the
     
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      client the messages.  Instead of hte server telling the client the color
     
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      (NDI_BLACK for example), this needs to be re-done so the server tell the client
     
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      the type of message it is (NDI_ATTACK, NDI_EXP_CHANGE, NDI_STAT_CHANGE, etc). 
     
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      The client can then choose the appropriate color (and a good/clever client might
     
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      even have a color selector so the player can easily choose the appropriate
     
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      colors they want).
     
     
Yes. No need for the server to decide the colours for user. And the clients
would be easy to modify to work with this change.
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