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belugawhale

Apparently TNT lit with electricity or fire crashes when it is drawn in a zig-zag form, which only works vertically.

I wonder why this happens, could someone explain?

Here is the save:

greymatter

@belugawhale (View Post)
Probably that's just too much calculations for TPT to handle..

jacob1

it's actually a stack overflow caused by excessive recursion. Rewriting flood_prop should fix it, but obviously we are all lazy. The crash has been there forever anyway :P. I'm sure you'll see it fixed eventually.

h4zardz1

Fire overflow> tries to remove it> Fire overflow
and so on?
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boxmein

@jacob1 (View Post)
well reduce recursion and build loops instead! :D
#c-programming-advice

h4zardz1

@boxmein (View Post)
recursion is a kind of loop, but loop is not totally recursion. (which is, not crashing but lags a lot)

detroit671

Wholey Cow! never seen TPT crash that fast and hard!!

mniip

@h4zardz1 (View Post)
any loop can be rewritten as a recursion, any recursion can be rewritten as a loop (but not always in an efficient way)

MiningMarsh

Just rewrite it as tail recursive, gcc supports it. Easier than rewriting it entirely to a loop (probably, though it might just be nicer as a loop).

my windows 8 pc didnt crash! but my aspire windows 7 did!?

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