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There are two hardfought code additions that render save and bones files incompatible
with the upstream NetHack-3.7, and that makes testing with hardfought
save and bones files more challenging than it needs to be, when
investigating and troubleshooting bug reports.
Add some unused fields to advance towards achieving save file parity with
hardfought, which is a significant source of play-testing for NetHack-3.7.
1) the elbereth field addition to u_conduct
This adds an unused placeholder field named 'hf_reserved1', at the appropriate
place in u_conduct to achieve struct field parity with the one in use on
hardfought.
2) hardfought adds a field to struct monst:
char former_rank[25]; /* for bones' ghost rank in their former life */
Instead of adding that to every monst, this adds a new mextra struct
named 'former', which currently contains the equivalent 25-character
field called 'rank' which can hold the content that was in the
former_rank[25] field. That way, the field will only be added when it
is needed.
A pull request https://github.com/k21971/NetHack37/pull/2 has been
done on hardfought to do it the same way (untested there as of yet).
Even though NetHack-3.7 does not utilize that information presently,
this will be a further step toward allowing hardfought-generated save
and bones files to be used for troubleshooting, without modification,
on a similar architecture running stock NetHack-3.7 code.
That savefile parity won't be achieved until the after the
hardfought pull-request mentioned above (or equivalent) is merged.
As this change will not be compatible with existing save and bones
files, it will be accompanied with an EDITLEVEL increment.
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