The extend instruction is for loading narrower data types into wider
data types, eg, single element into 2, 3, or 4 element types, with a
small set of extension schemes: 0, 1, -1, copy (for 1->any and 2 -> 4).
Possibly most importantly, it works with unaligned data.
Progress towards #30
Most were pretty easy and fairly logical, but gib's regex was a bit of a
pain until I figured out the real problem was the conditional
assignments.
However, libs/gamecode/test/test-conv4 fails when optimizing due to gcc
using vcvttps2dq (which is nice, actually) for vector forms, but not the
single equivalent other times. I haven't decided what to do with the
test (I might abandon it as it does seem to be UD).
This one is ancient: the code was essentially unmodified since release
(just some formatting). Malformed vectors could sneak through due to map
bugs (eg, "angles -90" instead of "angle -90" as in ad_tears) and the
vector parsing code would continue past the end of the string and
writing into unowned memory, potentially messing up the libc allocation
records. Replacing with the obvious sscanf works nicely.
Sometimes, Quake code is brilliant. Other times, it's a real face-palm.
This is meant for a "permanent" tear-down before freeing the memory
holding the VM state or at program shutdown. As a consequence, builtin
sub-systems registering resources are now required to pass a "destroy"
function pointer that will be called just before the memory holding
those resources is freed by the VM resource manager (ie, the manager
owns the resource memory block, but each subsystem is responsible for
cleaning up any resources held within that block).
This even enhances thread-safety in rua_obj (there are some problems
with cmd, cvar, and gib).
This allows the fuzzy bsearch used to find a def by address to work
properly (ie, find the actual def instead of giving some other def +
offset). Makes for a much more readable instruction stream.
pr_type_t now contains only the one "value" field, and all the access
macros now use their PACKED variant for base access, making access to
larger types more consistent with the smaller types.
The misinterpretations were due to either the cvar not being accessed
directly by the engine, but via only the callback, or the cvars were
accesssed only by progs (in which case, they should be float). The
remainder are a potential enum (hud gravity) and a "too hard basket"
(rcon password: need to figure out how I want to handle secret strings).
This is an extremely extensive patch as it hits every cvar, and every
usage of the cvars. Cvars no longer store the value they control,
instead, they use a cexpr value object to reference the value and
specify the value's type (currently, a null type is used for strings).
Non-string cvars are passed through cexpr, allowing expressions in the
cvars' settings. Also, cvars have returned to an enhanced version of the
original (id quake) registration scheme.
As a minor benefit, relevant code having direct access to the
cvar-controlled variables is probably a slight optimization as it
removed a pointer dereference, and the variables can be located for data
locality.
The static cvar descriptors are made private as an additional safety
layer, though there's nothing stopping external modification via
Cvar_FindVar (which is needed for adding listeners).
While not used yet (partly due to working out the design), cvars can
have a validation function.
Registering a cvar allows a primary listener (and its data) to be
specified: it will always be called first when the cvar is modified. The
combination of proper listeners and direct access to the controlled
variable greatly simplifies the more complex cvar interactions as much
less null checking is required, and there's no need for one cvar's
callback to call another's.
nq-x11 is known to work at least well enough for the demos. More testing
will come.
The tests fail due to differences in how clang and gcc treat floating
point to unsigned integral type conversions when the values overflow. It
wouldn't be so bad if clang was consistent with conversions to 32-bit
unsigned integers, like it seems to be with conversion to 64-bit
unsigned integers.
With this, the "get QF building with clang" mini-project is done and I
won't have to panic when someone comes to me and asks if it will work.
At worst, there'll be a little bit-rot.
Only edicts themselves get a smaller alignment (4, 8 or 32 bytes,
depending on hardware and progs version). I didn't want to waste too
much memory on edict alignment for progs that don't need any better than
void *, but the zone really wants 64 bytes, and the stack might as well
have 64 bytes as well. Fixes a segfault when running v6 progs in a clang
build (clang got really agressive with simd in zone.c).
gcc and clang have rather different swizzle builtins, but both do a nice
job of optimizing the intuitive initializer swizzle (I think gcc 8(?)
didn't do such a good job thus my use of __builtin_shuffle).
It seems clang defaults to unsigned for enums. Interestingly, gcc was ok
with the checks being either way. I guess gcc treats enums that *can* be
unsigned as DWIM.
This is the bulk of the work for recording the resource pointer with
with builtin data. I don't know how much of a difference it makes for
most things, but it's probably pretty big for qwaq-curses due to the
very high number of calls to the curses builtins.
Closes#26
These add legacy support for basic float bitops (& | ^ ~). Avoiding the
instructions would require tot only the source to be converted, but also
the servers (as they do access those fields), and this seemed to be too
much.
I had forgotten that unsigned division was different from signed
division (rather silly of me). However, with some testing and analysis,
unsigned true modulo is not needed as it's not possible to have
negative inputs and thus it's the same as remainder.
This loads the current return pointer into the specified register. No
offset is used (should make that an error, but for now any offset is
simply ignored). This is part of the fix for getting obj_msg_sendv to
work with return values.
With the return buffer in progs_t, it could not be addressed by the
progs on 64-bit machines (this was intentional, actually), but in order
to get obj_msg_sendv working properly, I needed a way to "bounce" the
return address of a calling function to the called function. The
cleanest solution I could think of was to add a mode to the with
instruction allowing the return pointer to be loaded into a register and
then calling the function with a 0 offset for the return value but using
the relevant register (next few commits). Testing promptly segfaulted
due to the 64-bit offset not fitting into a 32-bit value.
The plan is to use the types to extract the number of parameters for a
selector when it is necessary to know the count. However, it'll probably
become useful for something else alter (these things seem to always do
so).
It's a bit disconcerting seeing a builtin in the top 10 when builtins
are counted by call while progs functions are counted by instruction.
Also, show the total profile after the function top-10 list.
It's currently only 4 (or even 3 for v6) words, but this fixes false
positives when checking for null pointers in Ruamoko progs due to
pr_return pointing to the return buffer and thus outside the progs
memory map resulting in an impossible to exceed value.
It turns out the return pointer still needs to be saved even when a
builtin sets up a chain call to progs, but rather than the pointer being
simply restored, it needs to be saved in the call stack exactly as if
the function was called directly by progs. This fixes the invalid self
issue quite thoroughly: parameter state seems to be correct across all
calls now.
I should set up an automated test now that I know and understand the
situation.
When calling a builtin, normally the return pointer needs to be
restored, but if the builtin changes the call depth (usually by
effecting "return foo()" as in support for objects, but possibly
setjmp/longjmp when they are implemented), then the return pointer must
not be restored. This gets vkgen past object allocation, but it dies
when trying to send messages to super. This appears to be a compiler
bug.
Since the operand types sort out the difference between asr and shr, no
need to give them different opnames. Means qfcc doesn't need to worry
about which one it's searching for.
Yet another redundant addressing mode (since ptr + 0 can be used), so
replace it with a variable-indexed array (same as in v6p). Was forced
into noticing the problem when trying to compile Machine.r.
I abandoned the reason for doing it (adding a pile of vector types), but
I liked the cleanup. All the implementations are hand-written still, but
at least the boilerplate stuff is automated.
Of course, only in Ruamoko progs, but it works quite nicely.
global_string is now passed the absolute address of the referenced
operand. With a little groveling through the progs stack, it should be
possible to resolve pointers to locals in functions further up the
stack.
Bill Currie