From: "David Whitcombe" <mxedisn AT rof DOT net>
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Subject: Re: My 3d-Engine acts as if on drugs
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 23:36:23 -0600
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Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH] wrote in message
>Anders David Skarin wrote:

...
>> The thing is that when my project becomes large (a few thousand lines)
>> it always starts to act the same way.
>> All of a sudden the program will start crashing at points in the program
>> that havn't been touched for a long time. My 3ds-reader can't find the
>> correct chunks in the files anymore although i havn't changed a line.
...
>    Old code (that worked before) failing now, is a sure sign of wild
>pointer access.


I can think of a lot of things that might be barfing...

One thing I'd check for is how much global space you're using... I noticed
some odd problems when I tried to, say, create a few 50000 byte char
arrays with:
char blob[50000];
Not a good idea.

Back in the (bad) old days, before DPMI, my roomate and I exhausted a 64k
segment with global stuff, and huge local variables.

Make sure you're letting the memory manager (be that "new" or "malloc")
allocate big chunks of stuff.

Dunno if this helps...

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