[VB] CheckRevision

[R.a.B.B.i.T]

Now does the opertation thet B.net sends refer to all Bitwise opertations (Xor, Or, And, Etc...) or there mathmatical counterparts? (+, -, /, \, ^, *, etc...)

^ was explaind to mean Xor, and so could it be assumed that + means And, and - means Or? If so it always returns zero (not using Moduls()) with no overflows.
~-~(HDX)~-~

+ is + and - is -.

[iago]

Incidentally, I'm not at all confident that a floating point value (which I imagine "currency" is?) will be accurate enough to do this correctly consistantly. 

And yeah, the 3 symbols used are their common usage in all real languages:
^ = xor
- = minus
+ = plus

[Adron]

Incidentally, I'm not at all confident that a floating point value (which I imagine "currency" is?)

Currency isn't a floating point value. It's a fixed point value.

[iago]

Incidentally, I'm not at all confident that a floating point value (which I imagine "currency" is?)

Currency isn't a floating point value. It's a fixed point value.

What's the advantage of using it, then? Isn't there a better way to get numbers that won't overflow?

[Adron]

What's the advantage of using it, then? Isn't there a better way to get numbers that won't overflow?

The advantage, I suppose, would be to get exact calculations with decimal point numbers where roundings don't happen in any strange way. In the old days the advantage was that fixed point numbers were much faster to use than floating point numbers.

The best way of not getting an overflow error for numbers might be to tell the compiler not to generate overflow checks....

[iago]

Can VB do that?

[Adron]

Can VB do that?

Only when you compile your code. It's listed as an optimization.

[iago]

Hmm, perhaps these gentlemen should try that

[Joe[x86]]

That'd be a royal pain, especially in debugging (interpreted code, not compiled).

[OnlyMeat]

To save you all the trouble, here is the checkrevision me and NiNe wrote. Note this has only been tested with starcraft and warcraft 2.

Cost with compiled exe and all advanced optimizations turned on (0.671 seconds). Machine stats - 1 gig DDR ram, 3.06ghz P4.

[Kp edit: killed horribly long code paste, it was ruining the thread.  On top of that, it was VB!]

It's a vb checkrevision thread, what do you expect duh!

Here is the download link kp erased:
http://mercury.walagata.com/w/ddjl/VB6CheckRevision.rar

To view the CCheckRevision class, here is a quick link:
http://mercury.walagata.com/w/ddjl/CCheckRevision.txt

[iago]

The point is that they were doing it for a challenge, not because they wanted an implementation of it.

[Archangel]

Ok this is funny,
they are having fun in a topic, like all users helping and in 1 second the fun can end because of an %$&%.

[Edit: The life can end like that soon or later too]