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[MrSpurious]

Hi, I seem to have a problem with the state messages on the right column. Not all text describing a state is drawn, or is being drawn incorrectly. For instance, two blank lines will appear below the turn counter, and then a properly drawn state name. If I then do something to modify my state (eating a kiwi, dropping a lot of things), the properly drawn state will move up one line. Therefore, I know that there was a line of text I couldn't read. Other occurrences are text for a state being drawn as a line of the same character. Often when an attribute changes, a line of single characters will appear, or the text for the entire line will dissappear. Any thoughts?

I thought it might be an SDL problem, I'm using 1.2.7. I am using Gentoo, but compiled this from source myself rather than using the ebuild. I've tried recompiling it with more optimizations (default was -O2, I compiled with CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" as well, but that appeared to work the same.)

I haven't seen any other reports of this - any suggestions?

[holybanana]

Hi. Some Gentoo users have had similiar problems. This is most likely a compiler bug. I'm pretty sure it occurs in the two rawbitmap::Printf functions of <IVAN's source dir>/FeLib/Source/rawbit.cpp, although I don't know where in them. Could you, or someone else with the same problem, test if replacing the aforementioned file with this patched one and recompiling helps:

http://ivan.sourceforge.net/rawbit.cpp

[TheFallenOne222]

I think I might know what it is if that's not it...

Whenever I attempt to compile the source in MSVS, it complains about a possible "bit operations order" problem in rawbit, because the order hasn't been clearly defined with brackets. It's possible that it's decided to give some of the operands a different priority, and that's what is causing the problem. There was a similar problem in another file... I'll grab the file lines later tonight if that's not the problem.