Re: ADOM causing illegal operations

anxious triffid wrote:
> Aki Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
>
> > On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 08:29:13 +0000, anxious triffid wrote:
> >
> > > "Josh Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in 
> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > >
> > > > Chaos Master writes:
> > > >
> > > > > While I was playing a very good gnomish elementalist, ADOM gave an
> > > > > illegal operation. Now I get illegal operations at random. I'm
> > > > > playing ADOM with Togu's patch to cure uber-monsters. Anyone here
> > > > > had the same problem with illegal operations?
> > > >
> > > > It can't be at random. A computer isn't people. Retrace your steps,
> > > > carefully, and perhaps you'll notice something you've done each
> > > > time. 
> > > Define 'random'.
> >
> > Easy. Something which cannot be predicted ahead by looking at its
> > previous states. A computer program is predictable by essence, so it
> > is not random.
> >
> > Of course, some bugs that rely on accumulated error (buffer overflows)
> > may _seem_ random to the user in the sense that they don't always show
> > up "at the same place". That doesn't mean the program's behaviour is
> > random, just that it is not apparent from the user's interface to the
> > program. 
> >
> > And that's what we have debuggers for. :-)
> Bites tongue.
>
> At the request of Steven White earlier in the thread I am not going to 
> argue.

Thank you for you restraint :)