There was no provision for malloc() potentially returning Null and it
wasn't integrated with nethack's MONITOR_HEAP. 'heaputil' shows that
the curses interface is leaking like a sieve. If some things are
actually being allocated separately and then freed from within curses,
those need to be thoroughly documented and maybe switched back to
malloc().
The curses interface already has a hack to keep 'Count: 12', 'Count:
123' intermediate multi-digit counts out of its message recall history
for ^P, but it was flushing real messages when getpos()'s 'autodescribe'
reported what the cursor moved over. Overload the count hack to support
putstr(WIN_MESSAGE, ATR_NOHISTORY, text)
(which is what custompline(SUPPRESS_HISTORY, ...) eventually calls).
The conditional logic for when to create the 'count_window' was pretty
convoluted. This simplification has the same semantics but I don't
have PDCURSES to actually verify that.
Some bits from another feature by Tangles had
slipped into our merge of curses a while back.
Remove the partial bits as feature bits should
be complete or not at all, unless foundational
for something to come.
Move the curses global variable defininitions to cursmain.c.
Make the references to those global variables extern in
include/wincurs.h
Get rid of a warning:
../win/curses/cursmesg.c:379:9: warning: declaration shadows a
variable in the global scope [-Wshadow] int orig_cursor = curs_set(0);
Kludge for Visual Studio compiler: Add a stub- file for use
in Windows curses port builds to ensure that a needed #pragma
is invoked prior to compiling the file pdcscrn.c in the
PDCurses source distribution. All command line options and
compile of the file. It is unreasonable to expect a NetHack
builder to have to tinker with the PDCurses source files in
order to build NetHack. This kludge means the NetHack builder
doesn't have to.
The file stub-pdcscrn.c contains only two lines:
#pragma warning(disable : 4996)
#include "pdcscrn.c"
Some day, if the PDCurses sources corrects the issue, this
can go away.