Re: Seg fault after 2 days of simulation

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "JK" == Jan Kreft <address@hidden> writes:

JK> BTW, would be better as an array of BOOL instead of char, does
JK> anyone know if that's possible?

You'd have to use bit shift operations and masking to do that, e.g.
"value |= (1 << offset)", "value &= ~(1 << offset)".  It's usually not
worth it unless the sequences are really big.  If the sequences have
*known* top-end size, you can allocate an ivar of sequence-size / 8 or
use the ": size" bitfield syntax. 

Btw, I really want to get away from use of raw memory in Swarm.  These
nasty consequences to unexpected allocation requirements are way too
nasty.  Even with a lot of experience and good tools, debugging memory
corruption problems can be a big time sink that ends up teaching you
nothing (except the benefits of obsessive behavior).  This bug
wouldn't have occurred if you were using the Java layer, because you'd
have used automatically sized and garbage collected Strings.

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