User:Niffiwan

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Who am I?

246... no.

I do some coding for the Source code project. I also help out with forum support, and write the coding section of the HLP newsletter.

I'm most interested in:

  • Supporting Linux
  • Improving the robustness of the codebase (e.g. see Coverity / Address Sanitiser / PVS studio)
  • Fixing bugs
  • Code reviews to get other peoples features added to FSO, i.e. maintain their momentum (although I feel that this really turns my brain to mush if I do it for too long :))
  • git :D

The areas of the code I'm most familiar with are:

  • New pilot code (antipodes 8 / 3.7.0+)
  • HUD gauges
  • ETS

Features I'd most like to add to FSO are:

(TODO: make this a table with what/why/how columns)

Scripts

Short Term

(gah! too much stuff on here already :()

Review patches in these threads:

Fix this issue - not really a bug, maybe a feature?

JSON ship/weapon table dump

Command line pruning (something should be done about this! New Options Menu HO!)

Add option to make HUD message text clearer (and maybe also add alpha/transparency options for hud gauges?)

Write doco for installing OpenAL Soft on Windows

GCC Address Sanitiser

(Because I'm always forgetting how to do this!)

  • export CXXFLAGS=-fsanitize=address
  • export LDFLAGS=-fsanitize=address
  • sh autogen.sh --enable-debug
  • make -j3 (until I get more cores :p)
  • ./fs2_open_3.7.3_DEBUG | asan_symbolize.py | c++filt

Stuff

memory overflow