This is a resend of a message that seems to have gotten lost in the guts of the BTS. It's been a week and I haven't seen a bounce or a confirmation. I did get the original Bcc sent by reportbug...
I wrote, about a week ago: >Package: bsdgames >Version: 2.17-1sarge1 >Followup-For: Bug #185100 > >This patch fixes the problem reported in #185100 by making movallow() try >again with dice swapped when it finds that there is no possible move with the >second die after the first die was used to move a man off the bar. > >This bug is present in the oldest version of backgammon that I was able to >find, posted to comp.sources.games in 1988, carrying the version information >"Last updated on Saturday, January 11, 1986." > >For easy reproduction, here's a savegame representing the board in the >original bug report. Just run "backgammon movallowtest" and try the move >0-4,23-24 to see the results. One obstacle: the savegame format is not >portable. It's just an array of ints. So I'm including two versions of >movallowtest. The first one is 32-bit ints with MSB first. The second one is >32-bit ints with LSB first. > >begin 600 movallowtest >[EMAIL PROTECTED]@`````````````````````` >M````__________[____]```````````````````````````````````````` >M``(````#````"0````#____Q____\0````D````.`````0````0````!```` >[EMAIL PROTECTED](````` >` >end > >begin 600 movallowtest >M`0````````#]_____O___P````#^_____O___P`````````````````````` >M````______[____]____``````````````````````````````````````(` >M```#````"0````````#Q____\?___PD````.`````0````0````!`````0`` >5`/[EMAIL PROTECTED](````````` >` >end > >diff -ru bsdgames-2.17.orig/backgammon/common_source/allow.c >bsdgames-2.17/backgammon/common_source/allow.c >--- bsdgames-2.17.orig/backgammon/common_source/allow.c 2003-12-16 >21:47:37.000000000 -0500 >+++ bsdgames-2.17/backgammon/common_source/allow.c 2006-05-14 >02:14:29.000000000 -0500 >@@ -83,8 +83,10 @@ > p[i--] = bar; > if (p[i] != bar) > continue; >- else >+ else if (d0) > break; >+ swap; >+ continue; > } > if (d0 || m == 4) > break; > >-- System Information: >Debian Release: 3.1 >Architecture: powerpc (ppc) >Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-powerpc >Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) > >Versions of packages bsdgames depends on: >ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an >ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-13 GCC support library >ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand >ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 >ii wamerican [wordlist] 5-4 American English dictionary words >ii wbritish [wordlist] 5-4 British English dictionary words f >ii wenglish 5-4 American English dictionary words > >-- no debconf information > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
