Re: Need reviews of HLA Adventure

randyhyde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hmmmm...
> Paul, if you could isolate the code section that is causing this
> problem and email it to me, I'd fix this in HLA. This is just a stupid
> bug that would be quite easy to fix if I were to have an appropriate
> example of the problem.

Jim posted the offending line:

<SNIP hlaadv.consts.inc(1325)>
align 4
L961_len__hla_ label dword
dword 011bh
dword 011bh
L961_str__hla_ label byte
db "This is a monster known as a 'wannabee'. It flutters
around like a normal bee, but is invincible to attacks and
unable to
damage the player. The game will enter into an infinite
loop
if an unsuspecting player decides to attack it
(according
to
alt.lang.asm legend, anyway)."
db 0
</SNIP hlaadv.consts.inc(1325)>

Curiously, I don't see that last parenthetical phrase in any
version I've downloaded - they all end with "... attack it".
Possible that Jim added it... Paul would know. I added it
in, to make sure that Gas really *would* handle it (no
problem), before I blamed it on Masm. In the .hla code, it's
just a really long parameter to stdout.puts...

Figures, that dragging "assembler wars" into a nice friendly
game where all you've got to worry about is dragons and
hellhounds and stuff would be the thing the causes a problem
:)

Best,
Frank
.

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