Re: [Circle] races?

From: Jeremy Elson (jelson@circlemud.org)
Date: 11/05/96


> - >I was just putting some more races in and wondered if there was a limit to
> - >how many races circlemud can handle in it's present form?  Reason i ask is
> - >i notice in several spots the proggie is shifting a bit depending on which
> - >race is chosen.  I figure eventually if you keep shifting that bit it's
> - >going into the ol bit-bucket.. so how many races can one have?
> - 
> - You've noticed this too, huh?  I get the left-shift warning 3 times when 
> - compiling because my highest bitvector type thingie is (1 << 34).
> - 
> - I think it's because of the 32-bit thing, but i'm not sure, and have yet to
> - figure out how to get it to go away.

Warnings are there for a reason!  You can only "fix" the warning by fixing
the code, which I promise does not work.  1 << 34 is meaningless -- it's
just 0.  The 1 is getting shifted right off the end of the 32-bit integer. 



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