[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#4256) Client Crash in CVS 17/05/2003

["Gregory Berkolaiko" <Gregory.Berkolaiko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops, my fault.  It's caused by the science_cost penalty.

To the reporter of the bug: could you provide backtrace please?

I never realised that this computation is done in the client as well.
There are few ways to fix this:

1. Pull out the patch.

2. Change the way the penalty is applied, now it is applied to the cost of 
a tech, but we can apply it to the incoming bulbs via server/plrhand.c
update_tech.  But this is very crude, since the penalty will be applied on 
city-by-city basis.

3. Add if (is_server) check to the calculation in tech.c

4. Send the handicap info to the client.  This is the cleanest way esp. if 
we want to have hadicaps given to human players in the future too.

Comments suggestions and fixes welcome.

G.

On Sat, 17 May 2003, Guest wrote:

> 
> Ran into assert while using 1.14.1-devel CVS @ 17/05/2003
> Platform: i686, Linux, Kernel 2.4
> 
> start game with a couple of ai, press turn done -> crash
> 
> shell output:
> 
> /home/free/freeciv>./civ &
> [1] 11088
> /home/free/freeciv>1: Cannot find sound spec-file "stdsounds".
> 1: To get sound you need to download a sound set!
> 1: Get sound sets from <ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/contrib/sounds/sets>.
> 1: Will continue with disabled sounds.
> 2: LANGUAGE="c"
> civclient: tech.c:465: base_total_bulbs_required: Assertion
> `pplayer->ai.science_cost > 0' failed.
> [1]    Abort                         ./civ
> 
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