This is mainly to allow retroactive addition to existing virtual functions without breaking existing content.
The MeansOfDeath fix for Actor.Die would not be possible without such handling.
Due to how function calls get resolved by the code generator there were some incorrect flags on the self pointer which triggered an assert and caused incorrect code generation.
Fortunately this was a mostly contained special case for which a workaround was possible.
The case with forward declared class used as a parent must be handled explicitly
actor MyWeapon : Weapon { Weapon.AmmoType "MyBaseAmmo" }
actor MyAmmo : MyBaseAmmo { }
actor MyBaseAmmo : Ammo { }
This data is game critical and may only be altered by code that knows what is allowed and what not. It must never be altered by any user code ever.
However, since the SkyViewpoint actors need to set up some relations between themselves and the default sky portals the previously purely internal 'internal' flag has been exported as a new keyword.
This was done mainly to reduce the amount of occurences of the word FTexture but it immediately helped detect two small and mostly harmless bugs that were found due to the stricter type checks.
Due to how the VM handles default parameters, these must always be identical to the parent to prevent undefined behavior.
So now, if such parameters are encountered, the compiler will either abort (for script version >= 3.3) or print a warning (for older versions.)
Any defaults being specified for older versions will be ignored, though, and the defaults of the parent function be copied to the override.
Due to the special nature of this expression the code generator got stuck in 'address' mode and passed the address of the variable instead of its value.
The order of processing is different here so when the property gets parsed there are no states to delete.
To fix this the property just flags the class and lets the ZScript state compiler deal with this as needed.
The following ill-formed ZScript code might crash targets with sizeof(int) != sizeof(void*) like 64-bit Intel
class test { void func() { if (true) ( return; ) } }
Note that this is merely a hotfix. Properly handling this to allow universal use of state scopes will require more work in cases where a scoped state is being accessed through a non-self pointer.
This is to ensure that the Class pointer can be set right on creation. ZDoom had always depended on handling this lazily which poses some problems for the VM.
So now there is a variadic Create<classtype> function taking care of that, but to ensure that it gets used, direct access to the new operator has been blocked.
This also neccessitated making DArgs a regular object because they get created before the type system is up. Since the few uses of DArgs are easily controllable this wasn't a big issue.
- did a bit of optimization on the bots' decision making whether to pick up a health item or not.
Let's use inline checkers in PType instead of constantly having to do clumsy IsKindOf checks etc. Once complete this also means that the types can be taken out of the class hierarchy, freeing up some common names.
Fixed bunch of compilation errors:
cannot pass non-trivial object of type 'FString' to variadic method; expected type from format string was 'char *' [-Wnon-pod-varargs]
Fixed linker erorr:
g_doomedmap.cpp.o: In function `InitActorNumsFromMapinfo()':
src/g_doomedmap.cpp: undefined reference to `PClass::FindActor(FName)'
Combining these two groups of data has been the cause of many hard to detect errors because it allowed liberal casting between types that are used for completely different things.
Having these two types related can cause problems with detection in the compiler because for some parts they need quite different handling.
Common handling for the fields has been moved into PSymbolTable but overall redundancy was quite minor as both types share surprisingly little functionality.
- fixed: IsVisibleToPlayer and optimized it a bit more.
- moved SourceLumpName to PClass, so that it can also be used for non-actors (there's a lot of non-Actor classes already.)
- separated the serializer for PClassPointer from PPointer. Even though not doable, a pointer to a class type is something entirely different than a class pointer with a restriction so each should handle its own case.
- added a few access functions for FActorInfo variables.
With PClassActor now empty the class descriptors can finally be converted back to static data outside the class hierarchy, like they were before the scripting merge, and untangle the game data from VM internals.
For these fields maps have no advantage. Linearly searching a small array with up to 10 entries is nearly always faster than generating a hash for finding the entry in the map.
- some optimization of access to OwnedStates in old DECORATE.
- consolidate all places that print a state name into a subfunction.
- allocate states from the ClassDataAllocator memory arena. States do not need to be freed separately from the rest of the static class data.
This reinstates the old FActorInfo as part of the meta data a class can have so that the class descriptor itself can be freed from any data not directly relevant for managing the class's type information.
This is an incredibly costly way to do a debug check as it infests the entire VM design from top to bottom. These tags are basically useless for anything else but validating object pointers being passed to native functions (i.e. mismatches between definition and declaration) and that simply does not justify a feature that costs execution time in non-debug builds and added memory overhead everywhere.
Note that this commit does not remove the tags, it only discontinues their use.
- decided to ditch the widget system I had started to lay out. As it turns out that would make things far more complicated and slower than they need to be.
This makes VMValue a real POD type with no hacky overloads and eliminates a lot of destructor code in all places that call a VM function. Due to the way this had to be handled, none of these destructors could be skipped because any value could have been a string.
This required some minor changes in functions that passed a temporary FString into the VM to ensure that the temporary object lives long enough to be handled. The code generator had already been changed to deal with this in a previous commit.
This is easily offset by the code savings and reduced maintenance needs elsewhere.
Note that the Strife status bar does not draw the health bars yet. I tried to replace the hacky custom texture with a single fill operation but had to find out that all the coordinate mangling for the status bar is being done deep in the video code. This needs to be fixed before this can be made to work.
Currently this is not usable in mods because they cannot initialize custom status bars yet.
It used the expression's value type, but needs to use the variable's, which can be different when the assignment is synthesized from a builtin function.
- keep string registers which are being used as function parameters allocated until after the function call returns. This is for allowing to pass strings by reference which would avoid some costly constructor/destructor loops in the call instruction.
src/gl/scene/gl_clipper.h:150:23: warning: comparison of integers of different signs: 'int' and 'unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare]
src/gl/dynlights/gl_aabbtree.cpp:137:24: warning: using integer absolute value function 'abs' when argument is of floating point type [-Wabsolute-value]
src/gl/dynlights/gl_aabbtree.cpp:137:34: warning: using integer absolute value function 'abs' when argument is of floating point type [-Wabsolute-value]
src/gl/dynlights/gl_aabbtree.cpp:137:44: warning: using integer absolute value function 'abs' when argument is of floating point type [-Wabsolute-value]
src/gl/dynlights/gl_aabbtree.cpp:139:6: warning: using integer absolute value function 'abs' when argument is of floating point type [-Wabsolute-value]
src/gl/dynlights/gl_aabbtree.cpp:139:30: warning: using integer absolute value function 'abs' when argument is of floating point type [-Wabsolute-value]
src/gl/dynlights/gl_aabbtree.cpp:139:54: warning: using integer absolute value function 'abs' when argument is of floating point type [-Wabsolute-value]
src/gl/dynlights/gl_aabbtree.cpp:142:6: warning: using integer absolute value function 'abs' when argument is of floating point type [-Wabsolute-value]
src/gl/dynlights/gl_aabbtree.cpp:143:3: warning: using integer absolute value function 'abs' when argument is of floating point type [-Wabsolute-value]
src/gl/dynlights/gl_aabbtree.cpp:144:3: warning: using integer absolute value function 'abs' when argument is of floating point type [-Wabsolute-value]
src/gl/dynlights/gl_aabbtree.cpp:167:6: warning: using integer absolute value function 'abs' when argument is of floating point type [-Wabsolute-value]
src/gl/dynlights/gl_shadowmap.cpp:163:31: warning: '&&' within '||' [-Wlogical-op-parentheses]
src/p_saveg.cpp:367:16: warning: comparison of integers of different signs: 'unsigned int' and 'int' [-Wsign-compare]
src/p_saveg.cpp:402:60: warning: comparison of integers of different signs: 'int' and 'unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare]
src/p_setup.cpp:1553:39: warning: format specifies type 'ptrdiff_t' (aka 'long') but the argument has type 'int' [-Wformat]
src/scripting/zscript/zcc_compile.cpp:293:74: warning: field 'AST' will be initialized after field 'mVersion' [-Wreorder]
src/swrenderer/drawers/r_thread.cpp:113:21: warning: comparison of integers of different signs: 'int' and 'size_t' (aka 'unsigned long') [-Wsign-compare]
- allow treatment as one-character string constants as character constants. This became necessary because name constants already use single quotes and are much harder to repurpose due to a higher degree of ambiguity.
- fixed: protected methods in structs were not usable.
This is only the parsing part, the arrays are not yet getting evaluated.
This required quite a hacky workaround because the gramma couldn't be made to accept the rule. The scanner will check if a 'static' token is immediately followed by a 'const' token and will combine both to a new 'staticconst' token that does not create conflicts with other rules.
This method was chosen because it avoids adding variable declarations to the global namespace which would have required a lot more work while polluting the grammar.
This way the global variables can be handled by a small bit of special coding in the struct generator.
Both files can now be included independently without causing problems.
This also required moving some inline functions into separate files and splitting off the GC definitions from dobject.h to ensure that r_defs does not need to pull in any part of the object hierarchy.
- block creation of actors with the 'new' instruction. Unlike the above these cannot be made abstract because without ConstructNative they cannot be serialized.
The code for constants was not optimal because the first operand of the instructions cannot be constant. This was solved by swapping it with the second choice which will always be non-constant.
The code for local variables did not allocate a new destination register and would overwrite the first parameter's variable.
It now uses a dedicated opcode instead of piggybacking on OP_CALL and it passes data that is closer to the VM. Symbols should be avoided at this level.
It also will skip the scope instruction if the code generator detects that both calling function and the self pointer type have the same scope, this assumes that subclasses cannot flip between UI and Play.