Re: Buffer Overflow...

Tom Whiting <[email protected]> Sun, 25 Sep 2005 02:24:11 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.games.devel.mud.rom
Message-ID <200592522411.514356@ltn-home>
Take a look at the memory code found here:
http://www.dreamless-realms.org/downloads-file-7.html
I don't claim to have written that, just found it a couple of years back, and it's helped me quite a bit.
Basically this will get rid of a lot of your buffer overflow problems, as it expands the buffer as necessary. Quite usefull if you've got a few areas in your game :)


On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:03:14 -0700 (PDT), Apple Britters wrote:
> I was having a problem with a buffer overflow.  I would type
> 'owhere p' - which is a huge list of items, and get the buffer
> overflow happening:
>
> Sun Sep 25 03:05:36 2005 :: Log Vladia: owhere p Sun Sep 25
> 03:05:36 2005 :: [*****] BUG: buffer overflow past size 16384
>
> I know I can just go in and increase the buffer size, but I'm not
> really sure of what other things this might effect, or what I
> should increase it TO.  Any help please :)
>
> Brittany.
>
>
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