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Moose Pegler
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Join date: 22 Apr 2006
Posts: 33
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10-27-2006 05:52
Anybody know of a C-to-LSL twonkie? Even one that just takes a first cut that needs cleaning? It'd be a nice way to move tried-and-true C packages into SL.
Cheers, Moose
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HtF Visconti
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Join date: 21 Jul 2006
Posts: 123
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10-27-2006 08:27
Hm,
well, apart from string parsing and simple number crunching you'd be hard pressed to find much room for a 1:1 transfer I think. To the best of my knowledge C lacks vectors and quaternions and LSL has no arrays (well, Lists are somewhat similar).
Also the program flow in LSL is often interrupted - like dataserver events. So you call for one thing here but the reply and associated action is somewhere else entirely in the code.
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Newgate Ludd
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Join date: 8 Apr 2005
Posts: 2,103
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11-02-2006 05:59
I agree with HtF, there is very little apart from very basic data processing / number crunching that have any corresponding functionality.
What sort of things did you have in mind?
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Strife Onizuka
Moonchild
Join date: 3 Mar 2004
Posts: 5,887
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11-02-2006 15:35
Trying to get C into LSL is an exercise in insanity. LSL's structure is not like that of any programing language out there & LSL is translated to an interpreted bytecode that is almost 1 to 1, so you can't even drop down to a lower lever. LSL is too high level a language to get C into. On that note, LSL's syntax is very similar (so much so that some of use use ESL, which is just LSL extended with C preprocessor commands, and before we upload we send our code through a C preprocessor).
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