From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8b08fdee567996fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-09 20:23:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BECABAC.A9367E25@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Problems with Mine Detector Game References: <3BE5C000.F5C23EC4@acm.org> <3BE74824.696E58F9@acm.org> <3BE89A6E.5C0039D1@acm.org> <3BEA0851.17E0C544@acm.org> <3BEB3A53.1F0F4FD4@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 04:23:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.86.205.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1005366198 209.86.205.213 (Fri, 09 Nov 2001 20:23:18 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 20:23:18 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 20:19:08 PST (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16195 Date: 2001-11-10T04:23:18+00:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry wrote: > > Well don't be so quick. It could be a problem detected by Win2k that got > undetected by Win9x and NT 4. Maybe because Win2k use a different dynamic > memory allocation, maybe... I have already seen this, a program was running > just fine on Linux and crash on Windows. The problem was a dandling pointer. I'm certainly willing to accept that there's a problem with the program that Win2k catches but Win98/NT doesn't, but I can't see it. The only uses of pointers are those required by GtkAda; this could still be an error there. -- Jeff Carter "Son of a window-dresser." Monty Python & the Holy Grail