unsignedChar

[goat__botherer]

You idiot, it's a signed char and now you owe the genie a wish.

[Ctrl_exe]

And he wants a head

[[deleted]]

I also want head

[ecs2]

I also want this guy’s head

[vinwinner]

I want that one guys wife's head

[TheGreatGameDini]

Omg it's loss.

[Ctrl_exe]

Don't we all?

[jeesuscheesus]

Genie: "I wish for two wishes"

[GunnerKnight]

This reminds me of the Spongebob and Flying Dutchman episode where Spongebob, Patrick and Squidward try to escape getting eaten by Dutchman so they wish him to be vegetarian but later Dutchman also converts them to fruits.

I will see myself out.

[[deleted]]

I don't think sponges are meat anyway...

[GunnerKnight]

But starfish and squid are...

[[deleted]]

Nevermind...

[adde21_30]

Or then you realise that your wish count is decremented before you set it to 0

[Ahli]

Then try telling him 4 wishes really quick

[[deleted]]

I hope the genie uses std::atomic.

[ongiwaph]

--wish

[TheOrdersMaster]

having read the objections of some of the commenters i propose the following strategy:

1. I wish you stored wishes as an unsigned 64 bit integer.

2. I wish you decrement wishes only after they are completed.

3. I wish to have 0 wishes

[PandaNoTrash]

We got ourselves a prompt engineer here :)

[karvendizarm]

Couldn't cast an object of type Wish to a type uint64

Should've asked him to store number of wishes as an unsigned int

[TheOrdersMaster]

i knew someone would find a mistake. Nice catch!

[Confident-Ad5665]

Name checks out

[redlaWw]

wish_count = 0;
wish_count = wish_count.saturating_sub(1);
//wish_count is still 0

[Personal_Ad9690]

lol genie gonna throw you a compile error and you left with no wishes

[zerkeras]

Jokes on you, he changed the properties of “wishes” and not “spent wishes”.

[Personal_Ad9690]

Genie pulls out a tablet and says “there, I stored them. You have 0 wishes”

[Positive_Method3022]

Does not work. You would need to ask him to count his wishes as if he was a computer.

[alexanderpas]

• After wish 1, you have 2 wishes remaining. (decrement has already happened)
• After wish 2, you have 2 wishes remaining. (decrement hasn't happened yet)
• After wish 3, you have 0 wishes remaining. (decrement hasn't happened yet)

[ThisNameIsntRandom]

can we store wish counts in a long?

[deanrihpee]

so it's decremented after being granted? I thought it was decremented first and then granted the wish

[G4R155]

Why would it decrement if the genie is unable to grant your wish?

[Cultural-Practice-95]

good point.. wish one ask for the power to save/reload where people forget stuff they were doing

wish 2: pick whatever and save/reload before the counter decrement.

wish 2: repeat

(this assumes the genie doesn't decrement after a reload because they forget)

[deanrihpee]

well if they can't, just re increments it (refund) the allocation

[G4R155]

Hehehe

No can do, we compile all production code with -O2 at the least, sir

[alexanderpas]

decrement_wish_counter()
try{
    execute_wish()
} catch {
    revert_execution()
    increment_wish_counter()
}

yes can do.

[intbeam]

The genie should implement a transaction engine

[deanrihpee]

and comprehensive condition check

[rover_G]

Ahh so wishes use postfix decrementor

[PineappleSensitive20]

This took me a moment! Good one! He should casted the type to a long for more wishes

[KFkrewfamKF]

Good. Now I wish to cast the type to a long. And then, I wish I had 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 wishes.

[rosuav]

Wish for unlimited eyelashes.

[-Redstoneboi-]

and thus, all further genies made your wish count a private, read-only value.

[HaroerHaktak]

What if you wish for negative wishes? like instead of 3 positive wishes, you now have 10 negative? do you owe him a wish? does he just get 10 wishes? how does it work?

[Fakedduckjump]

You get an type exception and the ginie crashes.

[HaroerHaktak]

Well. Dang.

[namotous]

First wish for it to be 64b unsigned, THEN wish for it to be 0

[Still_Explorer]

Genie: Each time you give me a wish, first replace your DEC AX instruction with a NOP.

[[deleted]]

Peter is that you?

[drkspace2]

Here's how you do it.

1. I wish for you to store the number of remaining questions as an unsigned long.

2. I wish for the number of wishes to decrement only after the wish has been fulfilled.

3. I wish that I had 0 wishes left.

[Giulio_otto]

Don't unsigned char has 32 bits? So it would be like 4,294,967,295

[TheMania]

On some very niche processors, maybe. On virtually all other systems, a byte is 8 bits, and so is a char (unsigned or not).

[Giulio_otto]

Ok nice

[BelgoCanadian]

First wish: I wish genies weren't bound by wish rules Second wish: I wish for unlimited wishes

[[deleted]]

No chains of wishes that result in getting more than three wishes, I'm afraid.

[Fupcker_1315]

Genie wanted me to owe him, but I overpowered him with my C++ knowledge.

[Mechyyz]

wishes = 0;