[DiscordArchive] So Shauren a buddy of mine was storing player in his script and i told him he should store playerGUI
[DiscordArchive] So Shauren a buddy of mine was storing player in his script and i told him he should store playerGUI
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So Shauren a buddy of mine was storing player in his script and i told him he should store playerGUID. Can you tell me the proper reason so I can pass it on?
rektbyfaith
01-16-2024, 03:17 PM #1Archived author: Malcrom • Posted: 2024-01-16T15:17:11.613000+00:00
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So Shauren a buddy of mine was storing player in his script and i told him he should store playerGUID. Can you tell me the proper reason so I can pass it on?
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player can go offline and the pointer can become invalid
rektbyfaith
01-16-2024, 03:18 PM #2Archived author: Northstrider • Posted: 2024-01-16T15:18:37.488000+00:00
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player can go offline and the pointer can become invalid
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there
rektbyfaith
01-16-2024, 03:18 PM #3Archived author: Northstrider • Posted: 2024-01-16T15:18:44.191000+00:00
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there
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Imagine player disconnects. The pointer is still pointing to the initial player memory, aka is now pointing to freed memory
rektbyfaith
01-16-2024, 03:18 PM #4Archived author: ModoX • Posted: 2024-01-16T15:18:46.645000+00:00
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Imagine player disconnects. The pointer is still pointing to the initial player memory, aka is now pointing to freed memory
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cool
rektbyfaith
01-16-2024, 03:18 PM #5Archived author: Malcrom • Posted: 2024-01-16T15:18:49.538000+00:00
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cool
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ty
rektbyfaith
01-16-2024, 03:19 PM #6Archived author: Malcrom • Posted: 2024-01-16T15:19:00.128000+00:00
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ty
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same goes for any object. it can disappear at any given time so storing a direct pointer to it is suicide
rektbyfaith
01-16-2024, 03:19 PM #7Archived author: Northstrider • Posted: 2024-01-16T15:19:24.659000+00:00
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same goes for any object. it can disappear at any given time so storing a direct pointer to it is suicide
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And a player check would not work?
rektbyfaith
01-16-2024, 03:21 PM #8Archived author: Malcrom • Posted: 2024-01-16T15:21:34.805000+00:00
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And a player check would not work?
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if (player) only checks if player == nullptr
rektbyfaith
01-16-2024, 03:22 PM #9Archived author: ModoX • Posted: 2024-01-16T15:22:18.600000+00:00
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if (player) only checks if player == nullptr
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no, because a pointer just points to an address in memory so if that memory gets freed or used by sth else, it blows up
rektbyfaith
01-16-2024, 03:22 PM #10Archived author: Northstrider • Posted: 2024-01-16T15:22:19.273000+00:00
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no, because a pointer just points to an address in memory so if that memory gets freed or used by sth else, it blows up
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