[Icfp04-discuss] Well, *this* is going to be a fun bug.

[Rolf]

Jed Davis wrote:

>So right now, the first diff I have is after round 424, and consists
>of three ants' having taken the wrong branch of a Flip insn.  I don't
>even know what part of my simulator to look at first; I mean, it's not
>like randomint and the case for Flip haven't been tested quite a bit
>by that point.
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>Since this list is for discussion, does anyone else have any bugs (not
>of the sort being simulated, that is) they'd like to lament about,
>and/or boast of having defeated?
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Well, My wife called out of my concentration "trance" and said "You have 
to come help me kill these ants...." Yup, ant bugs in the Kitchen. It 
was no simulation... ;-)

True story.

I had a bug in my simulator engine that caused the Move instruction to 
always return the ant to state 0 regardless of the intended return 
state. As it happens, even though it sounds like a huge bug, the broken 
simulator produces perfect output on the sample.ant, tiny.world test.

Rolf