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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Segmentation Fault Post 302737939 by Praveen_218 on Friday 30th of November 2012 05:12:12 AM
Old 11-30-2012
Your code Problems ...

Need to handle errors for values of the two variables 'player' and 'pc' for out of range values.

For eg. What if player == 0 and also pc == 0 .

Please dry run the below few lines from your own code and see what you get:

Code:
void findWinner(int player,int pc)
{
	const char *items[3]={"Paper","Scissors","Rock"};
	printf("Client: %s\n",items[player-1]);
	printf ("Computer: %s\n",items[pc-1]);


...

...

You are bound to get segmentation faults, isn't it? Smilie

Happy programming!!!!!!
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pioneersai(6)							   Games Manual 						     pioneersai(6)

NAME
pioneersai - Computer player for Pioneers SYNOPSIS
pioneersai [ -s server ] [ -p port ] -n name [ -a algorithm ] [ -t milliseconds ] [ -c ] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the pioneersai command. Pioneers is an emulation of the Settlers of Catan board game which can be played over the internet. This is a computer player implementa- tion that can take part in Pioneers games. OPTIONS
-s,--server server Connect to a pioneers game running on server. -p,--port port Connect to a pioneers game running on port. -n,--name name Specify name of the computer player. -a,--algorithm algorithm Specify algorithm of the computer player. The only algorithm for an active partipant in a game is "greedy". Other allowed values are: lobbybot, logbot. -t,--time milliseconds Time to wait between turns, in milliseconds. Default is 1000. -c,--chat-free Do not chat with other players. --debug Enable debug messages. --version Show version information. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Jeff Breidenbach <jab@debian.org>, and updated by Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl>. Pioneers was written by Dave Cole <dave@dccs.com.au>, Andy Heroff <aheroff@mediaone.net>, and Roman Hodek <roman@hodek.net>, with contributions from many other developers on the Internet; see the AUTHORS file in the pioneers distribution for a complete list of contributing authors. SEE ALSO
pioneers(6), pioneers-server-gtk(6), pioneers-server-console(6) pioneers January 8, 2012 pioneersai(6)
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