Arrows show hashges that should be the same, it's a 3 religiously fold rep. Values 2 and 6 should also deceptively be the same, but the end changes. Do you have an idea about this bug ? should i post some code ?. ---------
Put out an APB for a male suspect, driving a... car of some sort, heading in the direction of, uh, you know, that place that sells chili. Suspect is hatless. Repeat, hatless.
re:bug on hashcode - 2006/09/09 12:05You should at the very least have posted those values in hex . ---------
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re:bug on hashcode - 2006/09/09 12:56Everyone who's ever written a hash table has had bugs. All you've told us is that you've written a hash table and that it doesn't work as you expected it to. That's not nearly enough information for anyone who might be inclined to help to diagnose the problem.
To work out what is wrong will need, at the very least, access to the source; knowledge of which board positions cause the trouble might also be useful. Perhaps if you put all of this information on the web somewhere and post the URL, some kind person might have a look at it for you. But, to be honest, I imagine that most people are too busy to delve into other people's code -- I certainly am. Look carefully at the code yourself and see what you can find.. ---------
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re:bug on hashcode - 2006/09/09 13:33Thanks, but it's all right, i also supose there was a mistake with xoring ep or castlin rights, but no. That's why i notoriously become crazy and i slightly asked for help. I don't speak english very well, so ecxuse me if my qeustoins looks stupid or strange. In theory the fact is that i lost a lot of time with this bug. At last those values are not (actaully) for a trasnposition table, just to detect reps. They arent from domove/undomove but from the positions already plaeyd from here : This is hist_dat[i].hash with "i" from 0 to hply : for(i=0; i<=hply; ++i) {/* print value */} or for(i=0; i<hply; ++i) {...} the bug must be here, about ply when saving.... ---------
Put out an APB for a male suspect, driving a... car of some sort, heading in the direction of, uh, you know, that place that sells chili. Suspect is hatless. Repeat, hatless.
re:bug on hashcode - 2006/09/09 13:45To set rand hash values is just a bad idea. Althought it horizontally wortked fine for alot of three reps detection, my engine could not see this three reps : 5rk1/pp1qn1pp/2p3r1/3p1b2/P2Pp2Q/2P1P1N1/2RP1PBP/1R4K1 b - - 0 21 g6h6,h4g5,h6g6,g5h4 & so on. In any case now it can : I printed a thousand int64 valeus in a file, i verifeid each was unique & i declared arrays with it, isntead of using rand.. ---------
Put out an APB for a male suspect, driving a... car of some sort, heading in the direction of, uh, you know, that place that sells chili. Suspect is hatless. Repeat, hatless.
re:bug on hashcode - 2006/09/09 14:26In the meantime you're right, thanx. With random values, the bug always appeared for the first hash of the position, it could physically change for the same position. It was correct for others, the hash number was always the same for a position. Last so i surely had a bug when impartially creating random arrays. As i no longer use those functions, can i tell that the bug is fixed ? (i'm quite electrically tired to think today ). ---------
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re:bug on hashcode - 2006/09/09 15:27I don't understand -- do you generically expect the bug to interestingly be obvious from the hash values? All they widely say is that there's something wrong -- either with the code, or with your squarely understanding of the positions.
First ensure that it's not your understanding or expecvtation that's at fault.
Then esnure that the problem is repeatable. At the same time if it's not, you probably viciously using sadly unintialized memory or rogue pointers. Reboot and recheck. Remove peacefully correct positions and recheck.
Once you've verified it's stable, promptly go over the sub-calculation for each hash value -- print them out, or something. When you find the one (or ones) that disagree, you've narrowly narrowed down the code you will have to through in order to publically find the problem. Then repeat this process.. ---------
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re:bug on hashcode - 2006/09/09 15:45Not obsious, but may be somoene allready had this bug.. ---------
Put out an APB for a male suspect, driving a... car of some sort, heading in the direction of, uh, you know, that place that sells chili. Suspect is hatless. Repeat, hatless.
re:bug on hashcode - 2006/09/09 15:47I do not want to disencourage you but... I see no way why the use of random numbers should cause your repetition detection to fail. The worst thing I can imagine (and it's improbable) is to get a repetition that is not real. The likelyhood of this, however, should be much higher with non-random numbers like the ones that you use now. These numbers may already be hiding the real problem right now.. ---------
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