[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Population counter overflow (PR#954)

[Mike Kaufman <mkaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:19:42PM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:48:17PM -0700, s.yeates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Full_Name: stuart yeates
> > Version: 1.11.4
> > Distribution: Built from source
> > Client: Gtk+
> > OS: Linux
> > Submission from: (NULL) (130.217.76.32)
> > 
> > 
> > The population counter overflows for very large populations
> 
> If I assume that sizeof(int)==4 on your system you need a population
> over 2,000,000,000 to wrap the counter around. A city of size 30 has
> 4650,000 citizen. You would need about 430 cities for this. Do you
> really has such a huge empire?
> 
If you use the editor to create interesting scenarios (i.e. with very
large cities ~size 31-631) then population goes up really fast.

-mike

PS: at least I think that 631 was the size that it took for one city to
overload the population.

>       Raimar
> 
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