[rfk-dev] Commit thaw

[Tim Allen]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 01:07:35PM -0700, Peter A. H. Peterson wrote:
> I think before we commit to a public/stable release, we should all
> pound on it quite a bit, especially since this is a "new" codebase
> (for certain values of new).

So, I just cloned and built RFK from the new git repo (thanks, Eric!)
and because I've had bad experiences with 'make install' in the past,
I just ran 'make' and tried to run the program direct from the source
tree to see what would happen.

Turns out, what happens is:

    $ ./robotfindskitten 
    Floating point exception

Running it in GDB, I see:

    Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
    0x00000000004019c6 in randomize_messages () at robotfindskitten.c:263
    263j = i + ( random() % ( state.num_messages - i ) );
    (gdb) print state.num_messages
    $1 = 0
    (gdb) bt
    #0  0x00000000004019c6 in randomize_messages () at
    robotfindskitten.c:263
    #1  0x000000000040140d in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe848)
	at robotfindskitten.c:723

..so I'm guessing that this is actually a fancy way to say "couldn't
find a list of NKIs". Could we perhaps have a friendlier error-message?

Tim.