[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9901) bug: OSX assert failure on first city being created

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Benoit Hudson wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9901 >
> 
> This started about a week or two ago.  When I first create a city (or load a 
> game), this 
> assertion fires:
> improvement.c:289: failed assertion `cont > 0'
> 
> To see this, start a new game, pick any nation, choose a settler, 'b'.  
> Assertion fires 
> immediately.
> 
> The problem is client-side.  When I start separate server and client, the 
> server has a 
> continent number for the tile of the new city, while the client does not 
> (that is, the number is 
> zero).
> 
> I see the problem on OSX but not redhat-7.1 on intel.  Is this a memory 
> corruption issue?

Does this happen with the code from today?  There have been some bugs 
like this but I thought they were all fixed.

And, are you sure you're not building cities on the ocean?  Looks like 
that assertion would go off if you tried.

jason