Re: [gnugo-devel] Another serious bugfix

[Arend Bayer]

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Daniel Bump wrote:

> Teun had some methodology for finding out of bounds errors. There
> is a message about that in the list somewhere though so far I haven't
> been able to find it.

I think you are referring to:

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Teun Burgers wrote:

> Daniel Bump wrote:
> > 
> > What's the methodology you use to find these?
> 
> Pretty simple with array bound checking on DEC alpha OSF/Tru64
> with the native CC compiler.
> 
> env CC=cc CFLAGS='-g -check_bounds' ./configure
> make
> 
> Every arraybound violation then leads to a coredump with
> traceback info.
> 
> Teun

Btw, I have now installed the array-bounds checking gcc-2.95.2 here. It
slows GNU Go down by a factor of 30, but I will try to let some
regressions run.

Arend