Bug 30172

Chris Wilmes <cwilmes@creighton.edu> wrote:

Please wrap lines at or less than 80 characters.  Thanks.

> >Description:
> Segmentation fault in teachgammon (the backgammon tutorial in /usr/games) when returning to main menu from some other menu.
> 
> Problem also occurs on a friend's machine, which is running FreeBSD-current.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Run the following commands:
> % teachgammon (starts the program)
> <space>       (takes user to main menu after initial screen)
> i             (takes user to Introduction)
> ?             (is supposed to return user to main menu, but instead causes segmentation fault)

Please try this patch: (apply in src/games/backgammon/teachgammon)

Index: ttext2.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /ref/cvsf/src/games/backgammon/teachgammon/ttext2.c,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 ttext2.c
--- ttext2.c	30 Nov 1999 03:48:30 -0000	1.3
+++ ttext2.c	29 Aug 2001 05:23:04 -0000
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@
 
 #include "back.h"
 
-char *prompt, *list, *opts;
+extern const char *const list[];
+char *prompt, *opts;
 
 const char	*const doubl[] = {
     "\nDoubling:",

Comment 2 dd 2001-08-30 08:41:52 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->dd

I have a fix for this.

Comment 3 dd 2001-09-03 15:19:47 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Fixed in -current, will MFC after a while.