[SM] Integer running out of bounds

[steeffeen]

hey there,

some people might have noticed that integer variables can run out of bounds leading to weird results.
within calculation it isn't such a big deal because you know during the editing of the script that your values can't be handled

the real problem about this is the handling of time inside game modes.
as soon as the server ran for quite some time the "Now" variable runs out of bounds and gets a negative value, since then it's not possible to spawn players anymore because the "SpawnPlayer()" method fails because it needs a positive spawn date

for now i don't have evidences but the issue has been reported when it happened to a TimeTrial server http://forum.maniaplanet.com/viewtopic. ... 1&p=155394
it happened to our server quite a few times already, i can post screens/logs when it happened again

i don't really have a nice solution for this problem but i wanted to address it anyways.. maybe someone else got an idea.
probably the server should reset ALL of its values as soon as the script crashes because currently the "Now" integer keeps being out of bounds and negative because it seems to display the time since the server has started.
that's why you have to restart all your server every now and then...

i don't know if it matters for trackmania too because there isn't the need of actually spawning players but i think it leads to problems with other method..

any feedback would be appreciated

regards,
steff

[Akbalder]

I had the same problem on the Jailbreak server (Spawn method not working anymore).
Since there's nothing custom in this method for the jailbreak gamemode, I guess that it's a problem which can happen on every servers.

[steeffeen]

i guess it's not actually running "out of bounds" but rather restarting to count up from the lowest possible (and therefore negative) value which obviously doesn't work for many functions like spawning a player

one more appearance: http://forum.maniaplanet.com/viewtopic. ... 69&t=24071

[The_Big_Boo]

I think the word you seek is "overflow" ^_^