On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Hiddukel wrote: > I have converted my code to use long integer vnums, and up till now I > have had no problems with it. Today I was trying to change > get_random_room so that it actually gets a random room between the new > vnum range 1 - 2,147,483,647 and what I discovered is that the call to > number_range can't handle this. I changed the function declaration to > long arguments but it still hangs on this line: > > for ( power = 2; power < to; power <<= 1 )
Operator << is bitwise shift to left, each bit shift doubling the original value, in this case 'power' shifted once to left is same as power*2. I bet that it hangs because the value overflows (becomes negative), thus never actually reaching 'to'. --- DK
