I'm not sure whether basic formatting cleanup belongs in 3.6.1, but
there are also a couple of strings that got split and require the
implicit concatenation of adjacent string literals introduced with
C89/C90. The code itself compiles with pre-ANSI compilers, or at
least used to--most of it was developed with one....
Much of it is tabs in comments. But there was one substantive item:
an obsolete reference to "use 'Q' to Quit" after however many years....
Make the variadic functions look more like ordinary code rather than
have the function opening brace be hidden inside the VA_DECL() macro.
That brace is still there, but VA_DECL() now needs to be followed by
a visible brace (which introduces a nested block rather than the
start of the funciton). VA_END() now provides a hidden closing brace
to end the nested block, and the existing closing brace still matches
the one in VA_DECL().
Sample usage:
void foo VA_DECL(int, arg) --macro expansion has a hidden opening brace
{ --new, explicit opening brace (actually introduces a nested block)
VA_START(bar);
...code for foo...
VA_END(); --expansion now provides a closing brace for the nested block
} --existing closing brace, still pairs with the hidden one in VA_DECL()
This should help if/when another round of reformatting ever takes place,
and also with editors or other tools that do brace/bracket/parenthesis
matching.
I had forgotten that there were variadic functions in sys/* and ended
up modifying a lot more files than intended. The majority of changes
to those just inserted a new '{' line so that revised VA_END()'s '}'
won't introduce a syntax error. A couple of them needed VA_END() moved
so that local variables wouldn't go out of scope too soon. Only the
Unix ones have been tested.
I'll push a formatting guide at some point. There may still be
outstanding changes, but please feel free to resolve those as you arrive
a them.
To the best of my knowledge, there is no changes to the actual code
content, but the formatter does have the occasional bug. If you run into
an issue, please fix it!
I can't figure out how to make PuTTY use the Alt key to function as
a Meta key and set a character's high bit, so I used this hack to test
the M-5 fix just committed. This lets me specify a character to be used
to force the next character to have its high bit set, so I can fake the
Meta key with a two character sequence. (I used the back-tick/accent,
since nethack doesn't do anything special with it.) Conceivably something
like this should be promoted to the core; this just affects VMS, and only
when vmstty.c is compiled with DEBUG defined.
NOSAVEONHANGUP isn't documented anywhere. I don't see why it should
wipe out recoverable level files just because it doesn't want to build a
save file out of them during the hangup. Leave them intact if checkpoint
is active. If someone really wants to make them always go away, they'll
need to disable INSURANCE as well as enable NOSAVEONHANGUP.
tty's getret() -> xwaitforspace() could get stuck in a loop after
hangup, depending upon the state of terminal shutdown (accepting EOF or
ESC cares about cbreak mode?). Make xwaitforspace() become a no-op during
hangup processing.
vms's call to hangup() from an exit handler took place after the
terminal has been reset (the exit handler for the latter is registered
later so executes sooner). Then exit_nhwindows() resulted in a second tty
reset attempt and settty() -> setctty() encountered an error (which it
reported, triggeting a getret() call). Make the vms code correctly guard
against multiple resets.
Prevent the pardoning of trickery in wizard mode from attempting
to continue when there's no longer any current level. Also prevent
the ZEROCOMP configuration from trying to read from file descriptor -1
in case there're any other places which still let that slip through.
And fix an oddity in the VMS port's error() routine which has gone
unnoticed for years.