This is causing me to go insane

[Enigma]

Holy crap I have spent tons of time trying to find out what is causing people to go NR when I load a plug-in that I have been working on. After many many many many hours, I finally found what it causing it:

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bzAPIIntList *list = NULL;
  bz_getPlayerIndexList(list);
 bz_deleteIntList(list);

When I load my plug-in without that code, it runs fine; however, when I load the plug-in with it, everyone goes NR, and the server terminates. When it does terminate, BZFS says, "Bus error."

I'm using version 2.0.10 from SVN, which was updated (on my system) a few days ago.

I should probably also mention I was using bots (bzflag -solo N). I'm not sure if it matters though.

[L4m3r]

iirc, that function is supposed to fill the int list, not create it.

When I use it, I just declare an int list and pass its address to the function with &.

[JeffM]

do not declare the int list in the plug-in

use the bz_newIntList function to get the list;

it should look like this

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bzAPIIntList *list = bz_newIntList ();
if (list)
{
  bz_getPlayerIndexList(list);

  // do stuff

  bz_deleteIntList(list);
}

not all OSs can allocate the list in the plug-in.

[L4m3r]

Oh, right, the Windows problem. Forgot about that.

[Enigma]

Wow, thanks! That was a quick response. I guess it's been a while since I used bz_getPlayerIndexList(). I thought it allocated the intList.

[JeffM]

it will for 3.0 in the new API