SEV question

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Not a suprise...A byte!

[MrToxin]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Not a suprise...A byte!

Technically, a byte runs from 0 to 255.

...just sayin'.

[wilhil]

Well, been playing for the last couple of hours.

everything seems to run fine, but I get a access violation when I click on comparissons in the empires screen

[Captain Kwok]

That's a current bug only affecting a small percentage of users - not sure what is causing it.

[wilhil]

Ok, well, as long as it isn't just me!

I still have a lot of work to do trying to limit myself to a few turns per night!... if there is any help I can provide to fix the bug such as logs, just ask!

[Fyron]

MrToxin said:
Technically, a byte runs from 0 to 255.

If you want to be technical... A byte is contiguous sequence of a fixed number of binary digits. The exact size depends on the system in question (generally the smallest addressable word size). Even in C, where a byte is 8 bits, what those bits mean is arbitrary. It might represent integer values from 0 to 255, or it might be values from -128 to 127. Or it might just be a set of 8 boolean values.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

There are, however, 256 possible variations on an 8-bit byte, where a bit has two possible values.

[MrToxin]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
There are, however, 256 possible variations on an 8-bit byte, where a bit has two possible values.

And bytes are based on bits. That's where the 0 to 255 "standard byte" crap comes from.

00000000 translates to 0. 11111111 translates to 255. How a program interprets that is up to the programmer.

Of course, most programs use much, much larger slices of memory for...well, everything anyway so yeah.

Those of you that know what XOR means know what I'm talking about. :V

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I believe I posted a sufficient understanding of that...Fyron.

[Fyron]

11111111 just translates into 8 latches set high, not "255".