On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Ghost Shaidan wrote:
>0 0x80a778a in special (ch=0x8c93bf0, cmd=4, arg=0x8102bef "")
> at interpreter.c:1534
>1534 if (GET_MOB_SPEC(k) != NULL)
I think you will find, if you 'p *k', that your k->nr variable has become
corrupted.
Take the value of 'pfilepos' and 'nr' and print them as characters.
ie:
If your 'nr' variable is '12875845784'
(gdb) p/x 9742833
$2 = 0x94a9f1
Converts to hex.
(gdb) p (char)0x94
$3 = -108 '\224'
(gdb) p (char)0xa9
$4 = -87 'C'
(gdb) p (char)0xf1
$5 = -15 '<funny character that doesn't paste well>'
Takes each byte and prints the character. You'll probably find that yours
come out to be valid letters. (Although they may not if you happened to
overwrite it with integers somehow like with a bad array access.)
Do the same with 'pfilepos' and anything else in the beginning of the
structure that doesn't look quite right. (Pointers that don't begin with
'0x8' or '0x48' for example, if you are using Linux like I think you are.)
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