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Offline EricL

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Why are there two .trefbody sysvars?
« on: November 25, 2006, 09:11:35 PM »
mem locations 437 and 472 are both .trefbody.  The Wiki even lists both.

Is there some historical thing here I'm unaware of?

Mind if I kill one?  I'll preserve the one that the code translates .trefvar in hand coded bots to so as to not to break any hand-coded bots (unless they rely upon reading from the other mem location).
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Why are there two .trefbody sysvars?
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2006, 11:09:40 PM »
Are they both being updated in the same place in the code?  It might be that someone was mucking in the sysvars and made a mistake that got translated into future versions.
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Why are there two .trefbody sysvars?
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2006, 02:06:17 AM »
They are indeed.  mem location 437 is used for hand authored bots which reference .trefbody in their DNA txt files, but both locations are updated.
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Why are there two .trefbody sysvars?
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2006, 11:04:25 AM »
Don't remember any reason for that, might have been intended for something else at some point I suppose.

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