Vanilla Code Questions

[DavidMedley]

Is there a faster way to check my C syntax than to try to make the whole project?

[backwardsEric]

Is there a faster way to check my C syntax than to try to make the whole project?

Are you using Visual Studio (or some other IDE)? For that, I can't offer specific advice. If you're using the makefiles, then you could recompile just one or more of the files, say mon-attack.c and mon-blows.c, by running

make src/mon-attack.o src/mon-blows.o

in the top-level directory (i.e. for the source file you are interested in, replace the .c with .o). For Mac OS X, the equivalent would be running

make -f Makefile.osx mon-attack.o man-blows.o

in the src directory. The makefiles, however, should only rebuild what's necessary for a change. So, unless you modified a header file that's widely used, you won't be gaining much by specifically recompiling a handful of files.

[DavidMedley]

Oh, OK. I tried cc and that was awful. I'll try this way, or not, since you say it won't help much anyway.

[DavidMedley]

A bit off-topic, but when I was trying to trace incremental changes to HP and SP, I found that SP regenerates every turn, but HP regens only every fourth turn, except when resting and then the ratio is 2 to 1. I don't understand how or why this is happening. Maybe I screwed something up.

I don't want to track it down right now, but I couldn't help but wonder aloud about it.

[DavidMedley]

Can someone explain the difference between power and mult in object_properties.txt?

# power: the value given to the property in object power calculations
# mult: relative value of properties, used in power calculations
# type-mult: extra multiplier used in power for particular properties on
# particular types of object. Assumed 1 if not mentioned

[Nick]

Can someone explain the difference between power and mult in object_properties.txt?

Look in obj-power.c, mainly modifier_power() and flags_power().

[DavidMedley]

Look in obj-power.c, mainly modifier_power() and flags_power().

Can't you just do that for me, and write up a summary? Heh, j/k. Thanks for the direction.

[DavidMedley]

I see these log statements in there. How do I turn those on?

[Nick]

I see these log statements in there. How do I turn those on?

They're used when generating randarts. If you play a character with randarts, you'll get a (verbose!) randart.log file in your user directory which describes the randart generation process.

[DavidMedley]

They're used when generating randarts. If you play a character with randarts, you'll get a (verbose!) randart.log file in your user directory which describes the randart generation process.

I didn't get that file when I started a new randarts game

[Nick]

I didn't get that file when I started a new randarts game

That's odd, I do. Anyone playing randarts - are you seeing a randart.log in your user directory? Please let me know OS and other details if so (or if not).

[DavidMedley]

Please let me know OS and other details

I'm compiling a modified version of the nightly on linux

[Nick]

I'm compiling a modified version of the nightly on linux

So you're not seeing a ~/.angband/Angband/randart.log ?

[DavidMedley]

So you're not seeing a ~/.angband/Angband/randart.log ?

No, pretty sure I'm being thorough.

find | grep randart
./angband/src/obj-randart.o
./angband/src/obj-randart.c
./angband/src/obj-randart.h
./angband/src/list-randart-properties.h
./angband/lib/archive/randart_0e7ca6bf.txt

find | grep log
./angband/config.log
./angband/.git/logs
./angband/.git/logs/HEAD
./angband/.git/logs/refs
./angband/.git/logs/refs/remotes
./angband/.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin
./angband/.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
./angband/.git/logs/refs/heads
./angband/.git/logs/refs/heads/master

[DavidMedley]

randart_0e7ca6bf.txt describes the artifacts but nothing about their creation