[TC 10.52rc1] Running cm_exit with random parameters

[Elwin_Ransom]

Place the cursor on the command line.
Type any word

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cm_exit yahooooo

press Enter — this will restart TC.
Type any sequence of numbers

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cm_exit 1234567890

press Enter — this will switch TC architecture.

[petermad]

Confirmed.

I would expect TC just to exit with these two examples

[Fla$her]

Type any sequence of numbers

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cm_exit 1234567890

press Enter — this will switch TC architecture.

This is expected. Can be easily checked on .vbs:

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Test 1
Test 2
Test 4

Sub Test(N)
   If (1234567890 And N) = N Then MsgBox N & " accounted in the sum"
End Sub

[ghisler(Author)]

cm_exit yahooooo

This uses the character code of the first character as parameter. This is done for CM_*OPENDRIVES, where you can specify either
CM_SRCOPENDRIVES 67
or
CM_SRCOPENDRIVES C
or
CM_SRCOPENDRIVES c

The special handling isn't limited to specific commands, so you get this strange behaviour here. "y" is converted to 110.

cm_exit 1234567890

As Fla$her writes, the numeric parameter is a sum, and higher additions are ignored because they might be added in later versions.

[Elwin_Ransom]

2ghisler(Author)
Thank you very much for the explanation. But

"y" is converted to 110

Maybe you meant that the "y" is converted to 121? Did you mean the ASCII code of the "y" character or something else?

[ghisler(Author)]

Yes, 121 is correct. 110 would be "n".