I never liked the various hacks I had come up with for representing
resource handles in Ruamoko. Structs with an int were awkward to test,
pointers and ints could be modified, etc etc. The new @handle keyword (@
used to keep handle free for use) works just like struct, union and
enum in syntax, but creates an opaque type suitable for a 32-bit handle.
The backing type is a function so v6 progs can use it without (all the
necessary opcodes exist) and no modifications were needed for
type-checking in binary expressions, but only assignment and comparisons
are supported, and (of course) nil. Tested using cbuf_t and QFile: seems
to work as desired.
I had considered 64-bit handles, but really, if more than 4G resource
objects are needed, I'm not sure QF can handle the game. However, that
limit is per resource manager, not total.
The software renderer uses Bresenham's line slice algorithm as presented
by Michael Abrash in his Graphics Programming Black Book Special Edition
with the serial numbers filed off (as such, more just so *I* can read
the code easily), along with the Chen-Sutherland line clipping
algorithm. The other renderers were more or less trivial in comparison.
The ABI for the Ruamoko ISA set currently puts va_list into the
parameter stream whenever a varargs function is called. Unfortunately,
IMP is declared with ... and thus cannot be used directly unless all
methods become varargs, but I think that would cause even more
headaches.
This will make it possible for the engine to set up their parameter
pointers when running Ruamoko progs. At this stage, it doesn't matter
*too* much, except for varargs functions, because no builtin yet takes
anything larger than a float quaternion, but it will be critical when
double or long vec3 and vec4 values are passed.
I have no idea why the code is disabled (especially considering the
comment), so leaving it that way for now, but this makes the code
compile when enabled.
The old math functions from quake and quakeworld don't belong with the
newer ones as their presence in the same object file causes invalid
builtin warnings when pr_cmds isn't present.
With some hacks that are not included (plan on handling events and
contexts properly), button inputs, including using listeners, are
working nicely: my little game is working again. While the trampoline
code was a bit repetitive (and I do want to clean that up), connecting
button listeners directly to Ruamoko instance methods proved to be quite
nice.
After seeing set_size and thinking it redundant (thought it returned the
capacity of the set until I checked), I realized set_count would be a
much better name (set_count (node->successors) in qfcc does make much
more sense).
For now, just bsearch (normal and fuzzy), qsort, and prefixsum (not in
C's stdlib that I know of, but I think having native implementations of
float and int prefix sums will be useful.
I can't say that I like what's there even now, but at least PLItem can
be used without a lot of casting. Really, Ruamoko needs dictionary and
string classes so reading a property list can build more natural object
trees rather than this mess from when I knew too little.
There's still some cleanup to do, but everything seems to be working
nicely: `make -j` works, `make distcheck` passes. There is probably
plenty of bitrot in the package directories (RPM, debian), though.
The vc project files have been removed since those versions are way out
of date and quakeforge is pretty much dependent on gcc now anyway.
Most of the old Makefile.am files are now Makemodule.am. This should
allow for new Makefile.am files that allow local building (to be added
on an as-needed bases). The current remaining Makefile.am files are for
standalone sub-projects.a
The installable bins are currently built in the top-level build
directory. This may change if the clutter gets to be too much.
While this does make a noticeable difference in build times, the main
reason for the switch was to take care of the growing dependency issues:
now it's possible to build tools for code generation (eg, using qfcc and
ruamoko programs for code-gen).
Returning a string was a bad idea as it makes str_str difficult to use
with str_mid. (actually, iirc, it was the only reason I moved all
strings into progs memory... hmm).
It never really helped sort out the path issues when using build
directories. It worked well enough for single directory projects, but
things got messy very quickly, especially when mixing ruamoko libs with
external progs. A better method based on dwarf is coming.
In testing variable fw/precision in PR_Sprintf, I got a nasty reminder
of the limitations of the current progs ABI: passing @args to another QC
function does not work because the args list gets trampled but the
called function's locals. Thus, the need for a va_copy. It's not quite
the same as C's as it returns the destination args instead of copying
like memcpy, but it does copy the list from the source args to a
temporary buffer that is freed when the calling function returns.
Changing str_free's return type highlighted that I'd missed an edit when
I did the big ruamoko build cleanup.
Also silence the sed/mv noise now that things are working nicely.
