More from github issue 229: mark routines in util/dlb_main.c which
don't return as such and add some 'break' statements for compilers
that don't have support for that.
Another part of github issue 229, mixtype() didn't have either 'break'
or '/*FALLTHRU*/' separating healing from extra healing, extra healing
from full healing, and full healing from unicorn horn. So dipping
"bad" potions (sickness, confusion, blindness, hallucination) into
healing/extra healing/full healing or vice versa operated the same as
dipping a unicorn horn into the bad potion (producing fruit juice for
sickness and water for the others). It wasn't clear from the code
whether or not that was intentional. It actually seems reasonable
(albeit suboptimal use of {plain, extra, full} healing), so continue
to allow it and make the code clear that it's intentional.
Fix the first part of github issue 229. sortloot_classify() tries to
group musical instruments separately from other tools, but missing
'break' in a 'switch' prevented that from happening--they were mixed
together.
Since that grouping isn't documented anywhere, only source divers
would ever notice that it wasn't working as intended.
when polymorph causes loss of levitation boots or water walking boots
while over water. If discarding stuff while trying to crawl out got
rid of the taken-off boots, they wouldn't be in inventory any more
when break_armor() tried to drop them after taking them off.
when attempting to crawl out of water fails and hero is life-saved
or wizard-/explore-mode player declines to die. If the hero is saved
by positioning him/her one step further away from ball and chain,
teleds() tries to drag them, but if 'emergency disrobe' left the hero
stressed or worse, dragging fails. Ball and chain were being left
where they were, with chain no longer being adjacent to hero.
If drag_ball() fails, have teleds() teleport ball and chain to hero's
new spot, same as when that isn't within range of a one step drag.
A couple of early returns could result in temporary windows getting
left around instead of being released for re-use, which in turn might
lead to a panic due to lack of available window slots. The first
one is accompanied by an 'impossible' warning which no one has ever
reported and the second one could only happen if data file 'keyhelp'
was missing, so panic due to either of these is hypothetical as far
as released versions go. Somebody making modifications could run
afoul of either of them though.
query_category() - switch from early return to 'goto' so that the
temporary window used for a menu will always be destroyed;
whatdoes_help() - defer creating the display window until after the
data file has been successfully opened so that early return won't
need any window cleanup.
The pull request #226 commentary follows:
One major limitation of the autopickup exception system is that you can't
define an exception from an exception, despite both menucolors and msgtypes
prioritizing rules based on the order they are defined in .nethackrc. This
is because the "always pickup" and "never pickup" exceptions are tracked in
different lists, and at runtime, when the player steps over an object, the
game checks these lists seperately, with "never pickup" taking precedence.
This means that if you want to pick up some but not all items matching a
given expression, you may need to write a long and kludgy list of regexes
to get the behavior you want.
I've edited the autopickup exception code to remove this necessity: now
the exceptions are stored in one list, and conflicts between them are
resolved based on their relative position in that list. Whether an
exception was inclusive or exclusive was already tracked individually;
I don't know why they were stored separately in the first place. This
edit makes the system both more convenient and more consistent with the
semantics of menucolors and msgtypes.
With these changes, the 33 autopickup exception rules in the wiki article
linked above may be replaced with the following 7 much simpler rules for
the exact same effect:
AUTOPICKUP_EXCEPTION=">.* corpse.*"
AUTOPICKUP_EXCEPTION="<.* newt corpse.*"
AUTOPICKUP_EXCEPTION="<.* lichen corpse.*"
AUTOPICKUP_EXCEPTION="<.* lizard corpse.*"
AUTOPICKUP_EXCEPTION="<.* floating eye corpse.*"
AUTOPICKUP_EXCEPTION="<.* wraith corpse.*
AUTOPICKUP_EXCEPTION=">.*\>.*"
closes#226
Report stated:
"Poes deliberately slither onto a polymorph trap!" ... it's only one cat, er,
black naga. Why does the parser treat the name as plural? There are lots of
singular words and names that end in -s or -es!
H9249 1780
Reported directly to devteam rather than via the web contact form:
throwing wielded aklys while swallowed would hit the engulfer and
return to the hero's hand but leave a stale 'thrownobj' pointer if
the monster survived. Under usual circumstances, throwing anything
else or throwing the aklys again when not engulfed would clear that
pointer, putting things back to normal. However, killing any engulfer
with the same weapon would try to add it to engulfer's inventory to
be dropped as it died. If the killing blow was via melee rather than
another throw, the object in question would still be in hero's
inventory instead of free, hence panic.
The initial returning-aklys implementation shared Mjollnir's code
which doesn't have this issue. This reverts from having attached
aklys always returning successfully when thrown while swallowed to
Mjollnir's 99% chance of return and 99% to be caught when it does
come back. (That was already the case if the engulfer was killed by
the throw, where hero wasn't swallowed anymore after the damage was
inflicted.)
Zapping wand of opening or spell of knock at self while trapped:
"You are released from pit."
ought to be
"You are released from the pit."
Likewise for most of the other held-in-place situations.
Also, when released like that vision wasn't being recalculated right
away to update line of sight to reach beyond the edge of the pit.
Fixes#223
The touchstone code treated all rings as if they had gemstones, but
quite a few don't and feedback could be unexpected. Cited case was
an iron ring yielding a cyan (hi_metal) streak instead of the normal
iron result ("scritch, scritch"). A gold ring yielded a yellow
streak rather than a golden scratch. I didn't test silver ring but
suspect it yielded a silver streak rather than a silvery scratch.
This changes touchstones to treat non-gemstone rings like other
classes of objects instead of like gems. I made mineral rings keep
acting like gemstone rings--I'm not sure whether that's right.
Fixes#221
Routine unfixeable_trouble_count() is used for both applying a unicorn
horn (possibly internally via #monster if poly'd into a unicorn) and
drinking a blessed potion of restore ability. For the latter case, it
always gave the wrong answer (unless the hero happened to be all of
Sick and Stunned and Confused and Hallucinating and Vomiting and Deaf).
Since the actual count wasn't used to decide whether hero felt "great"
or just "good", having any of those conditions would hide the problem.
Fixes#216
A github pull request changed one of the fake mail messages so that
our web site's URL is added at compile time instead of being hard-
coded. However, it wouldn't compile with a pre-ANSI compiler since
it relied on concatenating adjacent string literals. This is more
complex but achieves the same result, and also makes the existing
run-time subsitution be a bit clearer.
Testing was a hassle but eventually successful.
chasonr's comments in github pull request #220:
It was necessary, when updating the MS-DOS port for 3.6, to revise the
screen-clearing and character-drawing functions, because the background
color is no longer zero. But the 3.6.1 method is rather slow, using
write mode 2 and a lot more calls to outportb.
outportb is expensive when running under a virtual machine, the typical
use case for the MS-DOS port these days, because it traps to the
hypervisor rather than actually writing to hardware.
This change restores the speed of the 3.4.3 version. The adapter is left
in write mode 0. Clearing is accomplished by writing zero to planes where
the background color has a zero bit, and 0xFF where the background color
has a one bit. Characters are drawn by writing 0x00, 0xFF, the font data,
or the inverse of the font data, as appropriate, to each plane.
When testing, be sure to use OPTIONS=videomode:vga, because autodetect
will go to VESA mode if it can.
closes#220