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Script arithmatic woes w/ getRealTime()

by Orion Elenzil · in Torque Game Engine · 11/26/2007 (4:08 pm) · 5 replies

Stock tge 1.4 demo, check it:
==>$a = 885404203;
==>echo(885404203 - $a);
-21
==>echo($a);
885404203

any advice ?

i'm trying to write a profiler for script,
and getRealTime() returns values like 885404203.
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#1
11/26/2007 (4:12 pm) 
==>$a = 885404192; echo(885404192 - $a);
32
==>$a = 885404193; echo(885404193 - $a);
-31


perhaps i should try to hook this stuff in to the C++ profiler

Torque 3D Owner Peter Simard
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#2
11/26/2007 (4:42 pm)
Torquescript doesn't handle large numbers very well. To get around this I added some console functions. Check the end of this post:

www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=31425

Torque Owner Michael Bacon
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#3
11/26/2007 (4:44 pm)
It seems to be treating the numbers as floating point. This is exactly why Torque Script should be a mildly typed languages.

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11/26/2007 (4:50 pm)
Ah cool; thanks guys.

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11/26/2007 (6:07 pm)
Thanks again Peter, that fixed it.

==>$a = getRealTime(); echo(mSubS32(getRealTime(), $a));
 0

(i renamed your guys from "MathSub" to "mSubS32" etc)


fwiw it's worth, i made an attempt at allowing script to use the C++ profiler,
but gave up. here's the core of my code if anyone wants to pick it up.
requires STL, which i didn't integrate into our codebase, so i can't really advise on how to get that going,
but STL isn't the core of what's going on, so it shouldn't be a blocker.

it compiles and runs and Sort Of works, but basically doesn't quite work.

the idea was i was trying to emulate what the PROFILE_START() and PROFILE_END() macros do.

profiler.h
#include <string>
#include <map>

...

using namespace std;

...

   typedef map<string, ProfilerRootData*> ProfilerDataMapT;

profiler.cc
ConsoleFunction(profilerScriptStart, void, 2, 2, "(string section name) Begin a profiling section.")
{
   argc; argv;
   if(!gProfiler)
      return;

   U32 keyLen = dStrlen(argv[1]) + 32;
   char* key = new char[keyLen];
   dSprintf(key, keyLen, "Script_%s", argv[1]);

   static Profiler::ProfilerDataMapT profilerDatas;

   ProfilerRootData* pdata = NULL;

   const string k(key);
   Profiler::ProfilerDataMapT::iterator i;
   i = profilerDatas.find(k);
   if (i != profilerDatas.end())
   {
      pdata = i->second;
      delete [] key;          // we accumulate these guys
   }

   if (pdata == NULL)
   {
      pdata = new ProfilerRootData(key);
      profilerDatas.insert(make_pair(k, pdata));
   }

   gProfiler->hashPush(pdata);
}

ConsoleFunction(profilerScriptEnd, void, 2, 2, "(string section name) Finish a profiling section.")
{
   argc; argv;
   if(!gProfiler)
      return;

   gProfiler->hashPop();
}