The pull request from argrath would have moved the definition of
VDECL from tradstdc.h to vmsconf.h because some out of date references
to it in sys/vms/*.c were the only place it still appeared to be used.
Instead of applying that, remove those old references.
NetHack 3.7.x requires C99 so just remove VDECL since it was present
in order to support pre-ANSI compilers. (There is at least one
comment that still mentions it though.)
This also gets rid of another chunk of tradstdc.h that was allowing
either pre-ANSI or nearly-ANSI compilers to deal with nethack's old
code. I left the USE_STDARG/USE_VARARGS/USE_OLDARGS stuff in place
even though anything supporting C99 shouldn't need that. Some or
all of the [UN]WIDENED_PROTOTYPES stuff is still there too.
Closes#1030
The consolidation of global variables from scattered source
files into decl.c and declared in decl.h was begun in 3.7.0.
Their placement in common files was done for centralized
initialization and potential re-initialization during a
"play again" scenario.
It wasn't really necessary for all of them to be housed in a
single huge structure to meet the "play again" requirement,
and the single huge structure has been a little unwieldy when
it comes to maintenance.
Following this commit, instead of one single extremely large structure
named 'g' to house all of the relocated global variables, they
are distributed into several ga through gz.
To make things easy for the developer, each variable is placed
into the struct corresponding to the starting letter of the variable.
That way, no lookup is required in order to know which struct houses
a particular variable, it is a simple match to the starting letter
for all the centralized global variables.
A global variable named 'amulets', would be found in ga.
ga.amulets
^ ^
A global varable named 'move', would be found in gm.
gm.moves
^ ^
A global variable named 'val_for_n_or_more' would be found in gv.
gv.val_for_n_or_more
^ ^
A global variable named 'youmonst' would be found in gy.
gy.youmonst
^ ^
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....
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!
The revised newmail() wouldn't compile (Strncpy doesn't exist, `buf'
was an array of pointers rather than of char). Simplify it substantially,
and adjust the one caller (vms) that relied on the old convoluted bit.