First problem to boggle me so badly.. hence my first post here. Hi.
I decided to add in elemental resistances to the code base I'm toying
with, and did it (successfully!) by using one of the int spares in struct
special_data_saved as an array resistances[10]. After going through the
necessary code to modify spell damage based on its elemental nature, I was
convinced everything would work fine when I moved the array over to
char_special_data_saved, so both PCs /and/ NPCs could have resistances.
So I added an int array resistances[10] to said struct, removed it
from its previous struct, and made the necessary change in utils.c. After
wiping the pfile (just one player, heh.. me.), I logged on and statted
myself to see if all was well. Turned out all my resistance percentages
were set to 0, except for resistance[5], which was something like
137198217. *boggle* Attempting to set that particular resistance to any
value (via do_set) crashed the mud, but I could set any other resistance.
Thinking I might have created the array right on top of some stray
data already in memory, I changed the array from type int to sh_int,
which is what apply_saving_throw[5] is, right above it in the code. I
guess this was my lame attempt to use less memory and hopefully not run
across that unaccounted-for data. Compiled, wiped, and logged in again.
This time, resistance[6] was at -6732 and resistance[7] was at 2900, but
all the other members of the array, including resistance[5], were at 0.
Again, trying to set the resistances with wiz commands caused a crash.
I even tried to initialize all the values of the array upon character
creation in roll_real_abils (which didn't work) and in do_start (which
crashed the mud right before advancement to level 1). No cigar.
I'm vaguely aware of things called 'malloc' and 'calloc', but don't
know if they would solve my problem or how to use them, as I am a
semi-newbie to C (but not a /complete/ dumbass ;). Any suggestions?
c
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