[allow-retreat] Vanilla/master exhibit undefined (usually crashy) behavior when conncected to a retreat-patched bmod

[SirDifferential-public]

Issue by oldlaptop
Monday Oct 01, 2012 at 20:51 GMT
Originally opened as https://github.com/SirDifferential/Shiver-Balance-Mod/issues/7

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After the addition of checks for retreat config options to the netplay protocol (new fields in Packet_Init), unpatched balance and vanilla builds act strangely when connecting with a retreat-patched bmod, usually refusing to connect if the allow-retreat bmod hosts, or segfaulting if the unpatched bmod/vanilla hosts. This is not a serious problem, but may merit #ifdefs around netplay additions or possibly a low-priority bug report/patch against vanilla for better sanity checking of incoming packets.