If we're passing file handles to libcurl to write the data into, the
game may crash under Windows due to incompatible C runtimes between cURL
and quake2. This is even mentioned in the official cURL doku.
Since the moment I took a very first look at the download code I wasn't
a friend of parallel downloads. There're several reasons for that:
- Parallel downloading needs some ugly hacks. For example downloading a
pak file has a high chance to make asset downloads running in parallel
unnecessary.
- Parallel downloads are hard to debug.
- There's just no need for them. I've tested several connection, 1
GBit/s LAN, 50 MBit/s DSL, 6 MBit/s DSL, and there wasn't a
significant difference between 1, 4 or even 16 parallel downloads.
I'm leaving the parallel download code in place. I someone really wants
parallel downloads he can bump the MAX_HTTP_HANDLES define.
The signal handler was always fishy since it modified the global process
state but worked on all common platforms. libcurl turns the process into
a multithreaded environment, thus breaking that fragile construction.
After the signal handler was called the global state is inconsistent and
there's a high chance of things going wrong. For example at the net curl
download or when setjmp() is called in Qcommon_Frame().
Until now download queues entries were created for each file, but only
removed in the unlikely event of changed download server. This leaked
about 4200 byte per file. Fix this by:
- Create a new function CL_RemoveFromQueue() that removes a queue entry
and call it everytime when a download either finished, failed or
aborted.
- Retire the 'download done' state, just the queue entries associated
with a download handle to NULL to communicate that the handle is
unused.
- Cleanup the full queue at shutdown.
Loading libcurl at runtime instead of linking it at compile time makes
things a lot easier and more reliable on Windows. On other platform
libcurl can be installed as optional dependency instead as an hard one.
We're printing only the two relevant informations: A download was queued
and a download finished or failed. That's enough to see what's going on
and not too noisy.
...and fix the bugs, that were worked around with that crap, instead.
This removes some corner cases like cancelation of all HTTP downloads
and fallback to UDP if too many 404 errors were generated. If this is
still a problem in reality - for example HTTP servers blocking the
client after too many 404 or even crashing HTTP server - fix the server
and don't force the clients to work around that.
We aren't in 1997 anymore, todays broadband connections are fast enough
to handle multiple large files. This may download some assets twice if
the server provides both a pak file with all assets and the assets as
plain files.
There's no need to parse the HTTP header on our side of things, CURL can
do that. And the old buffer code was overcomplicated, simplify it. While
at it switch to normal malloc().
While the download speed calculations may be useful their implementation
is crappy and the integration into the console is rather fragile. If we
really want to support the progress bar with HTTP downloads this needs
to be reimplemented.
The URL generation logic was buggy, it took the local fs_gamedir into
account when determining the files path on the server. That could have
worked in r1q2 or q2dos since they assume that the executable dir is
also the config dir. But it breaks in YQ2 were the executable dir and
the config dir differ.
These are:
- CL_ResetPrecacheCheck(): Resets the precacher, forces it to reevaluate
which assets are available and what needs to be downloaded.
- FS_FileInGamedir(): Checks if a file (and only a real file, not
somthing in a pak) is available in fs_gamedir.
- FS_AddPAKFromGamedir(): Adds a pak in fs_gamedir to the search path.
This is a very first cut:
* It compiles
* It doesn't crash
What's missing:
* cmake integration
* CURL should be loaded dynamically
* Integration between download code and filesystem
* Likely UTF-8 stuff
* cl_http.c needs cleanup
* Windows support
We're taking indices and converting them to pointer relative to the
hunks base. Yes, that's dirty. Since the indices are stored as 32 bit
values and hunks are generally small using 32 bit pointers is enough,
even on 64 bit platforms. So the code took the size of void* / 2...
See the problem? Yes, that's not a good idea on 32 bit platforms. Bite
the bullet and just take the size of void*. Shouldn't be a problem,
because the indices are the first thing that's loaded and the hunk is
trimmed right after it anyways. If, and just if, we really need each and
every byte in the early stages of map loading we need two cases. One for
64 bit and one for 32 bit.
This fixes issue #346. Kudos to @ricardosdl for the analysis.
Lost time is time that we spend but didn't account. So the lost time
doesn't shorten a second (in fact that would mean that we'll lose the
time twice), it lengthen a second. Since has a small but noticeable
impact on timing when running with vsync enabled.
In src/backends/unix/network.c:
* line 181: Assignment of function parameter has no effect outside the function. Did you forget dereferencing it?
* line 276: The scope of the variable 'tmp' can be reduced.
* line 665: The scope of the variable 'mcast_addr' can be reduced.
* line 665: The scope of the variable 'mcast_port' can be reduced.
* line 666: The scope of the variable 'error' can be reduced.
* line 775: The scope of the variable 'i' can be reduced.
In src/backends/windows/network.c:
* line 186: Assignment of function parameter has no effect outside the function. Did you forget dereferencing it?
* line 287: The scope of the variable 'tmp' can be reduced.
* line 707: The scope of the variable 'mcast_addr' can be reduced.
* line 707: The scope of the variable 'mcast_port' can be reduced.
* line 1049: The scope of the variable 'err' can be reduced.
* line 1163: The scope of the variable 'i' can be reduced.
In src/client/menu/menu.c
arrayIndexOutOfBounds:
* line 1921: Array 'creditsIndex[256]' accessed at index 256, which is out of bounds.
variableScope:
* line 332: The scope of the variable 'item' can be reduced.
* line 533: The scope of the variable 'x' can be reduced.
* line 533: The scope of the variable 'y' can be reduced.
* line 838: The scope of the variable 'b' can be reduced.
* line 864: The scope of the variable 'b' can be reduced.
* line 1910: The scope of the variable 'n' can be reduced.
* line 2199: The scope of the variable 'str' can be reduced.
* line 2812: The scope of the variable 'length' can be reduced.
* line 2813: The scope of the variable 'i' can be reduced.
* line 3838: The scope of the variable 'c' can be reduced.
* line 4112: The scope of the variable 'scratch' can be reduced.
* line 4181: The scope of the variable 'i' can be reduced.
* line 4345: The scope of the variable 's' can be reduced.
In src/game/player/hud.c
arrayIndexOutOfBounds:
* line 132: Array itemlist[43] accessed at index 255 which is out of bounds.
Itemlist assigned only once, and has only 43 items, better ignore unexisted items.
variableScope:
* line 82: The scope of the variable 'n' can be reduced.
* line 217: The scope of the variable 'x' can be reduced.
* line 217: The scope of the variable 'y' can be reduced.
* line 218: The scope of the variable 'cl' can be reduced.
* line 583: The scope of the variable 'cl' can be reduced.
The packaging guide contained a lot if informations for the 6.x -> 7.x
migration. Since 7.x has long been done remove that instructions and
clarify the generic ones.
With this change the code matches the comment. While most packet frames
are renderer frames, we must not take the render frame time into account
when calculating the average time spend processing the packet frames. I
dont's think that this change makes any measureable difference since the
packet frame time is just a very small fraction of the renderer frame
time.
