I've played on several different muds and I've noticed that when players
get to the higher levels, and they do a report on their statistics, their
experience points always show as negative numbers. I believe the reason
for this is because the experience point variable was set up as an int
instead of an unsigned int and the after 2 billion and something
experience points, the numbers flip over to negative.
Now, I want to avoid this all together in my mud, and I want the
experience points to have the full unsigned int range of numbers. I went
into structs.h and I changed the variable exp to an unsigned int. I then
proceeded to generate my experience point tables in class.c. I
subsequently got a slew of warning messages that said:
class.c:2077: warning: decimal constant is so large that it is unsigned
class.c:2078: warning: decimal constant is so large that it is unsigned
class.c:2078: warning: decimal constant is so large that it is unsigned
Now, I get very nervous coding when I see a bunch of errors. The code
compiled, and the mud runs, but what am I doing wrong?
As a side question, if I do a math problem with both an unsigned int and a
regular int, what will the result be? ie.
unsigned int one = 0;
int two = 10;
two - one = ?
one - two = ?
would the results be signed or unsigned?
- Any help would be appreciated
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