Re: Power Gaming Bug

[Frank Tore Johansen <frankj>]

Kris Bosland wrote:
> 	Thru Monsterous Cheating, I have discovered that there is an upper
> limit to how much "stuff" you can slap into a magic item.  I have been
> fooling around with the editing, and I created a
> Super-Every-Thing-You-Could-Ever-Want-Or-Put-In-A-Ring.  The problem I
> have is that when I try to identify the ring, the game freezes up and
> dies.  Any ideas?  I have included the ring for your enjoyment.

Sounds very much like buffer overflow.  Try replacing MAX_BUF with a
huge number (16000) in common/item.c, line 157, function ring_desc().

-Frank.