[Scummvm-devel] Nasty regression fixed in SAGA

Henjo van Rees henjo at glasch.nl
Fri Feb 20 13:19:02 CET 2009


I am going to (re)play IHNM tomorrow with 0.13.0 r38584+ and will report 
if I can complete the game.
Any specific cases/triggers/conditions I should try?

-- Henjo


Filippos Karapetis schreef:
> Hello
>
> I've just fixed a nasty regression from the script system rewrite 
> (commit #35670), which will cause crashes under certain conditions, 
> and probably makes SAGA games non-completable.
>
> When a script thread is waiting for another thread, the current 
> instruction offset should not be modified. The thread processing 
> function would incorrectly continue in some special cases, and would 
> incorrectly alter the current instruction offset. This becomes 
> apparent in some special cases only, which made it hard to spot - 
> plus, SAGA games have not been tested for 0.13.0, so there weren't any 
> reports for this.
>
> This change SHOULD go to the 0.13.0 branch, but we've already tagged...
>
> Regards
> Filippos
>
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