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[st33d]

CS4?

[Triplefox]

haXe, 10.2.

The last time it happened, I ignored the bug, continued adding features, and it magically fixed itself.

[Nix]

Then it's been lurking all this time, waiting to pounce until your codebase grew large enough that finding it would be near-impossible.

[st33d]

Does it perchance have anything to do with Vectors?

[Triplefox]

Nope, it's a haXe Hash(which uses Dictionary). The last time I saw this it was with a Sprite, I think.

My hypothesis is that the JIT is throwing out too much during optimization. Adding more code takes that section off the hot path, which is why it's "fixed." But actually reproducing it outside of the original test case is almost impossible.

[Glaiel-Gamer]

Nope, it's a haXe Hash(which uses Dictionary)

Dictionary stores objects as weak-references so if you ever lose track of an object in the dictionary it could be up for garbage collection FYI

[Triplefox]

GC should not happen here, by design. The dictionary in question is the entity id dictionary. Every entity I instance has a tag on it. Every tag stores an array referencing the entity directly.

And - when I tried accessing the missing entity by tag instead of by id, it is found, but is not found in a different code path that accesses by id.

It's a runtime bug.

Edit: Fixed...by forcing Dynamic on the type annotations of the Box2D shapes that immediately precede the tainted code, which are used to look up the entity id in question. I think this is one where it's a combination of the haXe type inference and the runtime both screwing up in some subtle way. The code did work before, after all.

[st33d]

Nope, it's a haXe Hash(which uses Dictionary)

Dictionary stores objects as weak-references so if you ever lose track of an object in the dictionary it could be up for garbage collection FYI

Not according to the docs. They say you have to initialise the Dictionary:

Code:

var d:Dictionary = new Dictionary(true);

to get weak references. Otherwise the references are persistent. I'm not ruling out the notion they've fucked it up though.

[mcc]

So I rather like Flash Builder

but uh

holy crud

That thing does not like to quit

I mean it just wants to keep at it. I want to say "quit" and it pauses for a long time, and shows a progress bar for a long time, and then just sort of locks up for awhile, and

I think I've had to force quit it every time I've used it

[TobiasW]

I think I've had to force quit it every time I've used it

Mac? The same thing happens with MonoDevelop for me.

[mcc]

I think I've had to force quit it every time I've used it

Mac? The same thing happens with MonoDevelop for me.

Yes, mac, and that's interesting... weird though because FlashDevelop and MonoDevelop aren't related, are they? And I have a copy of vanilla Eclipse I don't think I have this problem with.

[jotapeh]

For those wondering, in Flash when you use getPixel on a non-transparent bitmapdata you will get a uint value of 0x00FFFFFF where FFFFFF is your RGB color.

However if you use getVector, each pixel is dumped into a uint value of 0xFFFFFFFF.

To be fair it's a 'gotcha' I should have realized from the start. but arg. annoying.

[mcc]

I like how almost every project I start now begins with about an hour of "oh-- wait, the dvcs will throw a shitfit if I do [x totally simple and ordinary thing]. how can i...?" I don't know if I'd go back at this point, but I really miss svn.

[Hangedman]

while (txt.charAt(y) != " ")
{
    y++;
}
LOOPED FOREVER EVEN IF THERE IS A SPACE

but if i add
while (txt.charAt(y) != " ")
{
    if (txt.charAt(y) == " ") { break; }
    y++;
}
IT BREAKS WHEN THERE IS A SPACE

 

[Tycho Brahe]

while (txt.charAt(y) != " ")
{
    y++;
}
LOOPED FOREVER EVEN IF THERE IS A SPACE

but if i add
while (txt.charAt(y) != " ")
{
    if (txt.charAt(y) == " ") { break; }
    y++;
}
IT BREAKS WHEN THERE IS A SPACE

 

what about

Code:

while (!(txt.charAt(y) == " "))
{
    y++;
}

does that work?

[mcc]

FUCKING .DS_Store

EDIT: find ./* | grep DS_Store | perl -ne 'chomp; `hg remove "$_"`;'

gargagbbggnblf

[Ludophonic]

while (txt.charAt(y) != " ")
{
    y++;
}
LOOPED FOREVER EVEN IF THERE IS A SPACE

but if i add
while (txt.charAt(y) != " ")
{
    if (txt.charAt(y) == " ") { break; }
    y++;
}
IT BREAKS WHEN THERE IS A SPACE

 

What language is this? If it's C++ you probably want to use != ' ' instead of != " "
It's still weird though.

[TobiasW]

while (txt.charAt(y) != " ")
{
    y++;
}
LOOPED FOREVER EVEN IF THERE IS A SPACE

Hum. Works fine for me...

[Nix]

What language is that?

[TobiasW]

As far as I know, Hangedman works with Flash - and it sure looks like AS3.