Thread: PAWN compiler

Hello, can the old version of PAWN be compatible towards scripting stuff, I'm not familiar with the new version of pawn, { 128 } is ment to be a string size :O ?

Thanks, what I mean by the old version of PAWN is the one before the major update.

The current version is 64 bits, the other old one is 32, this is why I'm saying this. I perfer 32 over 64 :L

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No it's not backward compatible (but it shouldn't be too hard to recompile and change a few things). There is a compile.bat file which comes with the revision 145 package which you can use to compile your PAWN scripts. The curly braces now relate to packed strings:

Code c:

new pstr{128};

You can (and should) use this syntax instead of

Code c:

new pstr[128];

Due to the PAWN cell size now being 64bit, this would mean an insane amount of wasted memory (8 byte per 1 byte char). Use packed strings shown above to store 128 characters efficiently The reason I switched to 64bit cell size is that game object IDs are 64bit long.

[quote author=Recycler link=topic=278.msg2729#msg2729 date=1315661007]
No it's not backward compatible (but it shouldn't be too hard to recompile and change a few things). There is a compile.bat file which comes with the revision 145 package which you can use to compile your PAWN scripts. The curly braces now relate to packed strings:

Code c:

new pstr{128};

You can (and should) use this syntax instead of

Code c:

new pstr[128];

Due to the PAWN cell size now being 64bit, this would mean an insane amount of wasted memory (8 byte per 1 byte char). Use packed strings shown above to store 128 characters efficiently The reason I switched to 64bit cell size is that game object IDs are 64bit long.
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I haven't tried though the char array can be used for 8 bit arrays, how ever the method to use this array has to be in a simular style to the packed string thing.

[code c]
#if !defined MAX_PLAYERS
#define MAX_PLAYERS 24
#endif

new pLevel[ MAX_PLAYERS char ]; // Instead of a 64 bit, maybe a 8 bit
[/code]

How ever I do need to investigate a bit more on this new pawn version.