[XAD]

Originally Posted by BAILOPAN XAD: hrm I guess I should not tie the two concepts together ;] I assumed that languages with garbage collection would also initialize to null Maybe we should keep zero termination early-on to force it...

Have you changed to not do initialization by default??
If not then I would like to suggest the same thing I did to OLO...

Can you add a compiler code command to NOT initialize them??
Ex. #no_zero_init

With this option plugin authors can choose to optimize their code to be fast (if they know how to code it). For the rest of plugins coders they can code the easy (lazy and safe) way...

/X

PS! As I said before, Small do NOT have garbage collection... there are not "new", "malloc", or similar functions so there is no use of it...

[PM]

The abstract machine doesn't initialize anything to null (would be hard to implement too). The compiler has to do that...
i know that the compiler from Small package 2.4.0 which we used in version 0.1 initialized all the variables to 0 (arrays too). The one we are using now is from an amxmod package I believe, so maybe it doesn't.


XAD: Good idea, i would look into that.. But if we want to use the new compiler, we will have to fix the "#if XX == 16" bug... i'll try to fix it . Also, i would really like to use the new compiler, because it supports 3D arrays...

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Originally Posted by PM The abstract machine doesn't initialize anything to null (would be hard to implement too). The compiler has to do that... i know that the compiler from Small package 2.4.0 which we used in version 0.1 initialized all the variables to 0 (arrays too). The one we are using now is from an amxmod package I believe, so maybe it doesn't.

linux version of compiler in 0.16 doesn`t do it.
It caused some problems, like this:
http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=308

[BAILOPAN]

I think it should not be initialized to zero

[PM]

Originally Posted by BAILOPAN I think it should not be initialized to zero

many plugins assume it is... so I think XAD's suggestion is the best one so far ;]

[MagicShot]

I think it did in 0.1, I kinda liked that and am looking forwar to 3d- arrys too

[BAILOPAN]

yes... compiler switch sounds fine
defaulted to init 0

[CheesyPeteza]

Did someone say 3 dimensional arrays? YES PLEASE

[BAILOPAN]

actually we could make it more than 3

[CheesyPeteza]

I'd vote for 4 then. As with strings you effectively lose a dimension.

Enumerations are crap too, I long for structures. Perhaps I should just start coding straight for metamod.