On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Paul Siegel wrote:
> Hello again. Anyone sick of me yet? Here's an interesting poser for anyone that cares. I've been editing my circlemud code to switch from its obvious AD&D rules base into a system based on Warhammer Quest (anyone ever play it?). Well, in WHQ many characters/monsters have multiple attacks per round, so I added an attribute called attacks, and in fight.c I switched the line in the perform_violence procedure from:
> hit(ch, FIGHTING(ch), TYPE_UNDEFINED);
> to:
> for (int i = 0; i < GET_ATTACKS(ch); i++) {
> hit(ch, FIGHTING(ch), TYPE_UNDEFINED);
> }
> Well, this seemed all hunky-dorey until I noticed an odd occurance. I was testing by loading two mobs, then forcing one to attack the other. Should it occur that a mob with multiple attacks brings another mob below 0 hitpoints but not kill him (ie, POS_DEAD < mob's pos < POS_STANDING) the server crashes and I got the following line in my syslog:
>
> SYSERR: the Orc Warrior (#108): Attempting to call non-existing mob func
>
> Note that the Orc Warrior (#108) was the mob that had only one attack and was the one that was dying when the system crashed. I also edited the mob file so both mobs had only one attack and could not reproduce the error.
>
> Does anyone know this syserr better than I who could shed some light on the subject? I appreciate it.
>
hmm not sure why that syserr is popping up, but my guess as to why its
crashing is that you're, well, beating a dead horse. For example, mob a
gets 5 attacks, but he kills his opponent on the first hit, the next four
attacks go against no one, because the mob is removed when its killed, so
a simple check to make sure the victim isn't already dead before you
attack should help.
Neal
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