yo its jackleg borrowing my homey g$money's account

so you hit 32767 and tww can't handle it anymore... just a warning! please fix it i need my fix

11/18/2002 7:34:02 PM

well the front page premium list says you're online....?

11/18/2002 7:36:10 PM

yeah u would think they woulda taken into account that somebody would have posted 32767 times...

11/18/2002 7:40:40 PM

oh well maybe i should take it as a sign and go ahead and get a job already

11/18/2002 7:56:04 PM

yay signed 16-bit int!

11/18/2002 8:12:37 PM

hahaha....i think the board/community would collapse if u quit

11/18/2002 8:46:57 PM

thx u

11/18/2002 9:20:48 PM

I think I found the problem.

Quote :

"Username : jackleg Status : pretty colors Posts : 32772 (49.2 per day) Currently Online? : Yes Registered : 1/21/2001 (666.0 days ago) "

[Edited on November 18, 2002 at 9:28 PM. Reason : yeah, I know I'm late]

11/18/2002 9:27:52 PM

D'oh! I'm too slow.

[Edited on November 18, 2002 at 10:01 PM. Reason : I found it too! ]

11/18/2002 10:01:38 PM

CV WHAT WHAT

11/18/2002 10:02:28 PM

I don't get it

11/18/2002 11:18:20 PM

hahah what a funny bug

they probably never expected some loser to get that many posts

11/25/2002 9:44:37 PM

if smath is being serious.... the counters are probably held in 16-bit signed integers, as that's what most programming languages use. That means that the range of numbers the 16 bits can represent goes from -2^15 --> 2^15 - 1 (plus or minus one or so, i forget). And, as it happens, 2^15 is 32768. So the behavior of that variable after this point is probably unpredictable -- it will likely roll over into negative numbers or something. It can probably be set to an unsigned integer, in which case the max value is 2^16, or 65536, but seeing as jackleg will likely get there soon, a long integer will probably do better, which could go up to around 2^32 or 4 billion....

11/25/2002 11:07:30 PM

the 2^15 Bug, cousin of the Y2K Bug

11/25/2002 11:18:01 PM

weak

11/25/2002 11:38:47 PM

Quote :

"in which case the max value is 2^16, or 65536, but seeing as jackleg will likely get there soon, a long integer will probably do better"

12/2/2002 11:29:45 AM

they're talking shit about my baby

12/2/2002 1:06:12 PM

i was under the impression that most languages use 32 bit signed integers, and a long integer is 64 bits. Of course, by most languages I mean Java.

12/3/2002 4:07:05 PM

yeah but databases store based on the size you designate to them, and most INT def's default to 16 bits.

12/5/2002 8:59:58 PM

You are neglecting negative values. The highest possible integer for 16bits on a signed integer is 32767.

edit: didnt realise agentlion said the same thing.



[Edited on December 9, 2002 at 10:18 PM. Reason : .]

12/9/2002 10:15:57 PM