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Programming the DGD Driver

Copyrights:

• Copyright (C) 2003 Noah Gibbs.
• Copyright (C) 1996, 2003 Ronny Wikh.
• Copyright (C) 2010 Felix Croes.

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• 2. Introduction
• • i - Acknowledgments
  • ii - Tutorial Setup
  • iii - History of LPC
  • iv - Driver vs Mudlib
  • v - Administrative Setup
  • vi - Writing code
• 3. LPC basics
• • 3.1 Basic programming concepts
    • What is programming?
    • Compiled/Interpreted code
    • Programs
    • Objects
    • Object makeup
  • 3.2 Basic LPC
  • • Comments
    • Data types
    • Variable declarations
    • Function declarations
    • Statements and Expressions
    • • Statements
      • Expressions
      • The block statement
      • The ';' statement
    • Scope and prototypes
    • Operator expressions
    • • Miscellaneous operators
      • Arithmetic operators
      • Boolean operators
      • Conditional (logical) operators
      • Comparative operators
    • Prefix allocation
    • Precedence and Order of evaluation
    • Conditionals
    • • The if and else statements
      • The switch statement
      • The ?: expression
    • Loop statements
    • • The for statement
      • The while statement
    • The break and continue statement
    • Arrays and Mappings
    • • How to declare and use arrays
      • How to declare and use Mappings
  • 3.3 The preprocessor
  • • The #include statement
    • The #define statement
    • The #if, #ifdef, #ifndef, #else and #elseif statements
• 4.0 Essential LPC
• • 4.1 A Peek at things to come
  • 4.2 LPC revisited
  • • Function calls
    • • Making object-internal function calls
      • Making single object-external function calls
      • Call-by-value versus Call-by-reference
    • Inheriting object classes
    • Type identification
    • Type qualifiers
    • • The static variable qualifier
      • The static function qualifier
      • The private function/variable qualifier
      • The nomask function/variable qualifier
      • The atomic function qualifier
    • switch/case part 2
    • catch/error: Error handling at runtime
    • Array and Mapping references
• 5.0 The Driver Interface
• • 5.1 DGD's Configuration File
  • • Network and Directories
    • Resource Limits
    • Memory and Swapping
    • LPC and Interface
  • 5.2 DGD Library API
  • • The Auto Object
    • The Driver
    • The User Object
    • Object Creation and Initialization
  • 5.3 DGD Memory Management
  • • Threads of Execution
    • Objects and Swapping
    • • Lightweight Objects
    • Dynamic and Static Memory
• 6.0 The Kernel Library
• • 6.1