There is a lot of code affected by this, and Pat Rankin correctly
observes that it would be better to store roguelike as a level flag
rather than just using Is_rogue_level. A note for the future.
There is a lot of code affected by this, and Pat Rankin correctly
observes that it would be better to store roguelike as a level flag
rather than just using Is_rogue_level. A note for the future.
From the newsgroup: if someone adds too many new special levels, dlb
creation during install will give a warning but still exit with success,
and the subsequent installation won't know that the excess files need to be
placed in the playground separately. The result is that some files will
be missing when nethack tries to access them. The newsgroup thread states
that slash'em increased dlb's default limit of 200 files to 300, and the
unnethack variant increased it to 250 and also changed the overflow message
into an error that causes 'make' to quit. (The thread was initiated by
someone working on his own, not affiliated with either variant, who asked
for help figuring out why nethack couldn't find files at the end of the
alphabet. My answer didn't help much; I thought he was working with
separate files rather than with a DLB container.)
I started to go with the too-many-files-is-an-error fix, but instead
went the GNU route ("no arbitrary limits") and made the number of allowed
files become dynamic. It starts at 200 and expands by increments of 40
when necessary.
For text data processed by makedefs at install time, change all
printf and scanf calls that use %lx format to deal with unsigned long
variables, replacing the makedefs hack of a few days ago. It's not as
clean as I would have liked (quite a few casts), because the values
involved are derived from ftell and/or passed to fseek, which deal in
signed longs. But it clears up a few format check warnings by gcc in
rumors.c and pager.c in addition to the previous one in makedefs.c and
uses the right data type even in the places where no warning was issued.
gcc warned about comparing signed with unsigned for one particular
write() that used an expression for the size argument, and there was already
conditional code to try to handle it for a couple of other compilers. But
this simpler fix should handle it for everybody.
Pasi Kallinen