[gnugo-devel] board code revisited

[Gunnar Farnebäck]

Okay, I'm perfectly aware that I'm in the best position to answer this
question but since I don't know the answer I hope that somebody else
can come up with a good explanation anyway. :-)

In the definition of the vertex_stack_entry struct (board.c, line 78),

struct vertex_stack_entry {
  Intersection *address;
  int value;
};

why is the field value an int and not of type Intersection?


And while I'm going around criticizing my own code, here's an exercise
for your amusement. Assume that change_stack[] turns out to be too
small in some situation. What exactly will happen (there are a few
typical cases) when the buffer is overrun? How big is the probability
that the assertion in undo_trymove() will trigger before a
segmentation violation happens or some other assertion is hit?

/Gunnar