[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Natural City Names (PR#1059)

[Jason Dorje Short <vze2zq63@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

cameron@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Now I get an assertion failed as soon as the game starts. Any idea why?
> 
> 2: Tar-Ancalimë has been added as an AI-controlled player.
> 2: AI is controlling the Dunedan ruled by Tar-Ancalimë.
> Tar-Ancalimë is now easy.
> civserver: maphand.c:742: show_area: Assertion `is_normal_map_pos((x),(
> y))' failed.
> Aborted
> 
> The attached patch has this problem. Any idea what's going on?

This is almost certainly completely unrelated, and happened because of
the CHECK_MAP_POS change.

The failed assertion may happen because of a legitimate bug, or it may
just be a buglet because unnormalized coordinates are accidentally used.

To everyone: when this happens again, please get a backtrace from the
core file.

jason