Now all actors have the same metaclass and therefore it will always be the same size which will finally allow some needed changes to the type system which couldn't be done because it was occasionally necessary to replace tentatively created classes due to size mismatches.
There's simply never enough of them and they are used far too infrequently to justify the hassle of tagging along two TMaps per class.
For what they provide, single global lists that handle all player classes at once are fully sufficient.
The goal is to get rid of PClassPlayerPawn and PClassInventory so that the old assumption that all actor class descriptors have the same size can be restored
This is important to remove some code that seriously blocks optimization of the type table because that can only be done if types do not need to be replaced.
Symbols are very easy to manage once they are in a symbol table and there's lots of them so this reduces the amount of work the GC needs to do quite considerably.
After cleaning out compile-time-only symbols there will still be more than 2000 left, one for each function and one for each member variable of a class or struct.
This means more than 2000 object that won't need to tracked constantly by the garbage collector.
Note that loose fields which do occur during code generation will be GC'd just as before.
- removed all pointer declarations to types from the symbols. All types must be placed into the type table which means that they can be considered static.
As it stood, just compiling the internal ZScript code created more than 9000 DObjects, none of which really need to be subjected to garbage collection, aside from allowing lazy deallocation.
This puts an incredible drag on the garbage collector which often needs several minutes to finish processing before actual deletion can start.
The VM functions with roughly 1800 of these objects were by far the easiest to refactor so they are now. They also use a memory arena now which significantly reduces their memory footprint.
- use a memory arena to store flat pointers so that the messed up cleanup can be avoided by deallocating this in bulk.
- added a new SO opcode to the VM to execute a write barrier. This is necessary for all objects that are not linked into one global table, i.e. everything except thinkers and class types.
- always use the cheaper LOS opcode for reading pointers to classes and defaults because these cannot be destroyed during normal operation.
- removed the pointless validation from String.Mid. If the values are read as unsigned the internal validation of FString::Mid will automatically ensure proper results.
- removed some code repetition by inherit all variable types which reference a PField for a variable offset from a base class so that PField replacements can be done with one set of code.
error: use of undeclared identifier 'op'
error: no matching function for call to 'ListEnd'
error: no matching function for call to 'ListGetInt'
error: no matching function for call to 'ListGetDouble'
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This isn't done for register based variables so for consistency it should not be done for stack based variables, too.
This difference in handling made it impossible to check the target of a hitscan attack if it was destroyed by getting damaged.
This function will truncate everything that is larger than LONG_MAX or smaller than LONG_MIN to fit into a long variable, but longs are 32 bit on Windows and 64 bit elsewhere, so to ensure consistency and the ability to parse larger values better use strtoll which does not truncate 32 bit values.
The general rule is as follows: A class name as a string will always be looked up fully, even if the class name gets shadows by another variable because strings are not identifiers.
It is only class names as identifiers that must obey the rule that if it is not known yet or hidden by something else that it may not be found to ensure that the older variable does not take over the name if it gets reused.
If a later module reused an existing name for a different class or struct type, this new name would completely shadow the old one, even in the base files.
Changed it so that each compilation unit (i.e. each ZScript and DECORATE lump) get their own symbol table and can only see the symbol tables that got defined in lower numbered resource files so that later definitions do not pollute the available list of symbols when running the compiler backend and code generator - which happens after everything has been parsed.
Another effect of this is that a mod that reuses the name of an internal global constant will only see its own constant, again reducing the risk of potential errors in case the internal definitions add some new values.
Global constants are still discouraged from being used because what this does not and can not handle is the case that a mod defines a global constant with the same name as a class variable. In such a case the class variable will always take precedence for code inside that class.
Note that the internal struct String had to be renamed for this because the stricter checks did not let the type String pass on the left side of a '.' anymore.
- made PEnum inherit from PInt and not from PNamedType.
The old inheritance broke nearly every check for integer compatibility in the compiler, so this hopefully leads to a working enum implementation.
- load internal shaders only from file 0. This does not contain aborts, like most of the other checks,but it will now refuse to load any core shader file from anything but gzdoom.pk3.
- fixed the return type checks in CallStateChain. These made some bogus assumptions about what return prototypes to support and would have skipped any multi-return function whose first argument was actually usable.
This should for now conclude actor class scriptification. The remaining ten classes with the exception of MorphedMonster are all too essential or too closely tied to engine feature so they should remain native.
* completely scriptified DehackedPickup and FakeInventory.
* scriptified all remaining virtual functions of Inventory, so that its inheritance is now 100% script-side.
* scriptified CallTryPickup and most of the code called by that.
- fixed: Passing local variables by reference did not work in the VM.
- ensure that actor defaults contain a valid virtual table and class pointer so that they can actually use virtual and class-dependent method functions. This is needed for retrieving script variables from them.
- added some helpers to set scripted member variables through the native property parser.
Unfortunately some classes, e.g. PowerMorph, MorphProjectile and the powerup contain some that cannot be handled through the 'property' definition on the script side so they need to be done from the native side.
- improved the class pointer to string cast to print the actual type it describes and not the class pointer's own type.
- fixed: The 'is' operator created non-working code when checking the inheritance of a class pointer, it only worked for objects.
This revealed an interesting bug: When the berserk fadout formula was changed in 2005 the result was essentially broken, resulting in values around 7000 - it only worked by happenstance because the lower 8 bits of the resulting values just happened to work to some degree and never overflowed. But the resulting fade was far too weak and a slightly different handling of the color composition code for the VM made it break down entirely.
This restores the pre-2005 formula but weakened intensity which now comes a lot closer to how it is supposed to look.
- support transient object member variables for information that does not need to be put in a savegame.
- fixed: special initialization of objects needs to pass the proper defaults along, otherwise the parent classes will use their own, inappropriate one.
gl/data/gl_setup.cpp:430:11: warning: comparison of integers of different signs: 'int' and 'unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare]
gl/data/gl_setup.cpp:527:19: warning: comparison of integers of different signs: 'int' and 'unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare]
gl/data/gl_setup.cpp:542:19: warning: comparison of integers of different signs: 'int' and 'unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare]
nodebuild.cpp:1056:63: warning: format specifies type 'ptrdiff_t' (aka 'long') but the argument has type 'int' [-Wformat]
p_glnodes.cpp:379:50: warning: comparison of integers of different signs: 'int' and 'unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare]
p_saveg.cpp:381:18: warning: comparison of integers of different signs: 'int' and 'unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare]
p_scroll.cpp:532:11: warning: comparison of integers of different signs: 'int' and 'unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare]
p_setup.cpp:2304:43: warning: format specifies type 'int' but the argument has type 'unsigned long' [-Wformat]
p_setup.cpp:2302:12: warning: comparison of integers of different signs: 'int' and 'unsigned long' [-Wsign-compare]
scripting/codegeneration/codegen.cpp:8488:20: warning: comparison of integers of different signs: 'int' and 'size_t' (aka 'unsigned long') [-Wsign-compare]
scripting/codegeneration/codegen.cpp:8606:15: warning: comparison of integers of different signs: 'int' and 'size_t' (aka 'unsigned long') [-Wsign-compare]
