From 0834d51482ea8e4fd3f3a015091dfaf895b96639 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "nethack.allison" <nethack.allison>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 02:16:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] mon name buffers

Follow suit with what <Someone> did for the object name buffers,
so that this sort of statement can work correctly:

	pline("%s hits %s.", Monnam(mtmp), mon_nam(mtmp2));
---
 doc/fixes35.0 |  1 +
 src/do_name.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/fixes35.0 b/doc/fixes35.0
index 5087f0fd6..185c6ef9b 100644
--- a/doc/fixes35.0
+++ b/doc/fixes35.0
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ make it possible for the code to recognize your starting pet throughout the
 healers notice when a wand of undead turning revives a monster so the
 	wand is then identified
 update display if bestowed a spellbook while unable to see invisible self
+use small pool of static buffers for mon_nam() and Monnam()
 
 
 Platform- and/or Interface-Specific Fixes
diff --git a/src/do_name.c b/src/do_name.c
index 9d3cff73e..099d07a3c 100644
--- a/src/do_name.c
+++ b/src/do_name.c
@@ -6,9 +6,23 @@
 
 STATIC_DCL void FDECL(do_oname, (struct obj *));
 STATIC_DCL void FDECL(getpos_help, (BOOLEAN_P,const char *));
+STATIC_DCL char *NDECL(nextmbuf);
 
 extern const char what_is_an_unknown_object[];		/* from pager.c */
 
+#define NUMMBUF 5
+
+/* manage a pool of BUFSZ buffers, so callers don't have to */
+STATIC_OVL char *
+nextmbuf()
+{
+	static char NEARDATA bufs[NUMMBUF][BUFSZ];
+	static int bufidx = 0;
+
+	bufidx = (bufidx + 1) % NUMMBUF;
+	return bufs[bufidx];
+}
+
 /* the response for '?' help request in getpos() */
 STATIC_OVL void
 getpos_help(force, goal)
@@ -579,11 +593,7 @@ int suppress;
  */
 boolean called;
 {
-#ifdef LINT	/* static char buf[BUFSZ]; */
-	char buf[BUFSZ];
-#else
-	static char buf[BUFSZ];
-#endif
+	char *buf = nextmbuf();
 	struct permonst *mdat = mtmp->data;
 	boolean do_hallu, do_invis, do_it, do_saddle;
 	boolean name_at_start, has_adjectives;
@@ -606,7 +616,7 @@ boolean called;
 	    !(suppress & SUPPRESS_IT);
 	do_saddle = !(suppress & SUPPRESS_SADDLE);
 
-	buf[0] = 0;
+	buf[0] = '\0';
 
 	/* unseen monsters, etc.  Use "it" */
 	if (do_it) {