[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12849) Client crash, 2.0.0 Win32 - science dialog?

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12849 >

jacobn+freecivrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Could it be a resource leak? IIRC Win9x has particularly low numbers
> of various sorts of resources (typically 16384?). If every control
> drawn in the game takes up one and doesn't free it (*waves hands*, I
> don't entirely know what I'm talking about), then trouble could ensue.
> I could imagine this not showing up on modern Windows (e.g., XP).

That's exactly the reason the GTK client doesn't run (well) on older
versions of windows.  It doesn't even require a leak either.  Freeciv
doesn't keep close track of how many resources it uses (AFAIK) so we
could just be running over.

-jason