[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] More explicit message when a unit is killed by barbarians upon entering a hut.

[Big Gaute <gs234@xxxxxxxxx>]

Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Just one comment: this code was changed recently on CVS because it
> caused server crashes when the unit was killed (and it's struct
> free'ed).  Your patch reinstates the old behaviour (and the bug).
> Please save the unit type in some variable before the
> unleash_barbarians() call, and use that instead of the possibly
> free'ed unit struct.

Wow.  If that's not a really dumb mistake to make, I don't know what
is.  The punit_x and punit_y variables ougth to be indication enough.

Anyway, here is an updated patch:

verbose_barbarians.diff
Description: Patch to CVS snapshot from 3 July 2000

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