From:	"Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <cp1v45 AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: My 3d-Engine acts as if on drugs
Date:	Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:58:19 -0400
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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.
>
> Even more odd is that usually the program chrashes with a Page Fault the
> first time you run it after compilation. The second time it will usually
> run, but the screen remains black (no nice gouraud shaded objects:-).
> The error this time seams to be that the file isn't read correctly.

    Old code (that worked before) failing now, is a sure sign of wild
pointer access.

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     -Rolf Campbell (39)3-6318

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