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Increasing values

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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Sun 22 Jun 2003 01:03 AM (UTC)
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Is there a variable (like int or sh_int) that holds more than 1 billion? I wish to use it for gold or exp of the such.
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Posted by Meerclar   USA  (733 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #1 on Sun 22 Jun 2003 03:01 AM (UTC)
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Quick rundown for length of common numeric variable types:

short        32, 767
int/long     2,147,483,647
float        ~10^38
double       ~10^308
long double  ~10^4392
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #2 on Sun 22 Jun 2003 05:18 PM (UTC)

Amended on Sun 22 Jun 2003 05:19 PM (UTC) by Zeno

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So if I were to change in mud.h -
 int          exp

to
 double       exp

it would increase how the value of how high it can hold exp?
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Posted by Meerclar   USA  (733 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #3 on Sun 22 Jun 2003 06:41 PM (UTC)

Amended on Sun 22 Jun 2003 06:42 PM (UTC) by Meerclar

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Yep, thats about the extent of it. 


dbl     exp


rather than


double exp
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #4 on Sun 22 Jun 2003 10:07 PM (UTC)
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Ok, when I did that I got a bunch of error while compiling.

 dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

All over
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #5 on Sun 22 Jun 2003 11:55 PM (UTC)
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I tried that and got no errors, however I would be a bit worried about display routines that expect a long but get passed a double.
- Nick Gammon

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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #6 on Sun 22 Jun 2003 11:57 PM (UTC)
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You could also try a "long long" which will give you 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 (signed) experience points. However you still have the problem of changing appropriate displays so they know they are getting a long long.
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #7 on Mon 23 Jun 2003 06:08 AM (UTC)
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Hmm, if you tried that and it worked than perhaps I am not doing it correctly. Around line 2288

    sh_int              numattacks;
    dbl                 gold;
    int                 exp;
    EXT_BV              act;

After doing a clean recompile I get a lot of

act_comm.c: In function `talk_auction':
act_comm.c:2939: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
act_comm.c:2940: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

Thats just an example of what I get, there's a lot more of the same.
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Posted by Meerclar   USA  (733 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #8 on Mon 23 Jun 2003 03:53 PM (UTC)
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The functions that were being passed a gold value are expecting an int value and will all need to be changed to reflect the change of the gold data type to dbl.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #9 on Mon 23 Jun 2003 09:07 PM (UTC)
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dbl - what's that?

The C data type is "double". I did get a warning this time in build.c, for printing exp, on this line:


        fprintf( fpout, "%d %d\n",      pMobIndex->gold,
                                        pMobIndex->exp                  );


The error was:


buildc:5971: warning: int format, double arg (arg 4)
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Posted by Meerclar   USA  (733 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #10 on Mon 23 Jun 2003 09:13 PM (UTC)
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Sorry, too much vb code lately I guess. Yes, C is double for data type.
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #11 on Mon 23 Jun 2003 11:05 PM (UTC)
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Err, so what do I use? dbl or double?
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Posted by Meerclar   USA  (733 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #12 on Tue 24 Jun 2003 12:05 AM (UTC)
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Would use double for the value changes but you would need to change any struct that references the value changed to expect double instead of int.
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #13 on Wed 25 Jun 2003 02:02 AM (UTC)
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Alright, I see. I'm doing that now, but I think an example would help me of changing any struct references, so if anyone could provide one, it would help me so much.
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