Thanks, I appreciate the sentiment. One thing I learned long ago doing software development is that doing something right takes a lot less time in the long run than trying to ignore the problem, or covering it up with a quick hack.
Ie, when a bug is found in the open-source side of the SDK, the best thing to do is to root cause it and solicit community feedback on the fix. The alternative is to float about in a soup of bugs - you never know where problems are coming from. (Unfortunately, the most time-consuming issues I've hit are with the closed-source side of things, such as the infamous vphysics bugs, and the recent missing .lib symbols on Linux, but that's an unrelated issue.) Specifically in regards to asserts, I glanced at a post on this list recently where someone advised ignoring asserts, and that's unfortunate. Asserts, used correctly, are a powerful tool. I get nervous when I see a page of code without any asserts. Valve's software is light on asserts as it is, so it's best not to ignore the ones that are there. -bk At 2006/08/26 02:48 PM, Nick wrote: >Valve should pay you, I can't imagine how long you must have spent >trying to fix some of these bugs. Or why anyone would ever spend so >much time fixing such bugs? > >On 8/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>In debug mode after the SDK update, and the HL2 server asserted before it >>even loaded the map: >> >>ai_activity.cpp (41) : Assertion Failed: actID >= LAST_SHARED_ACTIVITY || >>actID == lastActID + 1 || actID == ACT_INVALID >> >>Looks like the "portal" things are missing from ai_activity.cpp so I added >>this KI which fixed the issue: >> >>http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_Known_Issues_List#AI_Activity.cpp_assert_on_startup >> >> >>Confirmation from Valve that this is the right fix for the bug would be >>appreciated. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
