What are infinite Loops? in Developer Help

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May 14 2010, 8:11 pm
Can someone show me an example? Cause im trying to find an infinite loop i made in my coding because its not allowing me to host my game.. it freezes Dream Daemon
#1 May 14 2010, 8:17 pm
An infinite loop runtime is usually caused by something that, obviously, loops indefinitely. For example:
BEGIN
// code here
goto BEGIN


Usually it's a common misuse of goto that causes most loops. Try to locate the segment of code that the runtime tells you is causing the loop, and tell us.
#2 May 14 2010, 8:19 pm
while(1)

An infinite loop is something which continues without end. The above loop has no means of exiting and will thus frackin explode the program. If a proc keeps calling itself that could also be an infinite loop. Those would be the basic examples.
#3 May 14 2010, 8:27 pm
In response to Duelmaster409 (#1)
The most common misuse of goto is using goto.
#4 May 14 2010, 8:30 pm
In response to Garthor (#3)
Well, yes. A safer alternative to loop things would be to use the universal for(var/i=0,i++,i<=loopval) or while(stuff). I don't see how using goto is necessarily a mistake itself though.
#5 May 14 2010, 8:36 pm
In response to Duelmaster409 (#4)
#6 May 14 2010, 9:31 pm
In response to Duelmaster409 (#1)
I have this loop here:


mob/proc
    Year()
        loop
            sleep(5000)
            year+=1
            world<<"<font color=yellow><b>Year [year]!</b></font>Server Saving."
            src.age+=1
            usr<<"<font color=green>You are now age <b>[src.age]</b>"
            WorldSave()
            src.Teen()
            world<<"Server Saved!"
            goto loop



but that proc has worked before when hosting.
#7 May 14 2010, 9:37 pm
In response to Yukay Karyuu (#6)
Get rid of goto loop. Replace loop with while(src).
#8 May 14 2010, 9:39 pm
In response to Duelmaster409 (#7)
Can you edit the code i posted with the while(1) inserted cause im a bit confused never hearing while(1) before.
#9 May 14 2010, 9:40 pm
In response to Yukay Karyuu (#8)
While I never said to use while(1), sure, I'll do it for you big boy.

mob/proc
    Year()
        // loop nothing you twit
        while(src)
            sleep(5000)
            year+=1
            world<<"<font color=yellow><b>Year [year]!</b></font>Server Saving."
            src.age+=1
            usr<<"<font color=green>You are now age <b>[src.age]</b>"
            WorldSave()
            src.Teen()
            world<<"Server Saved!"
            // goto NO DON'T
#10 May 14 2010, 9:45 pm
In response to Duelmaster409 (#9)
Idk if this was the problem but i fixed it.. and the Dream Daemon still crashes when i try to host it -__- it freezes and says not responding.
#11 May 14 2010, 10:16 pm
In response to Yukay Karyuu (#10)
Did you by chance set loop_checks=0?
#12 May 15 2010, 2:25 am
In response to Duelmaster409 (#11)
No.
#13 May 15 2010, 2:26 am
In response to Duelmaster409 (#11)
Now I did.. and it has the same problem...
#14 May 15 2010, 8:12 am
In response to Yukay Karyuu (#13)
I never said you SHOULD. I was asking if you did because that would explain the crashing.
#15 May 15 2010, 8:59 am
In response to Duelmaster409 (#14)
No i dont have that loop check thing.