Reject state is relatively bulky: it's a big chunk of struct natstr,
and adds almost 200 bytes per country to xdump nat.
Reject state changes rarely. Rewriting it to disk on every nation
update and retransmitting it in every xdump nat is wasteful.
To avoid this waste, move reject state to its own struct rejectstr.
This is of course an xdump compatibility break. We're not maintaining
xdump compatibility in this release.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
All callers of getrejects() also check whether the sender is a deity.
Factor out the common code into nat_accepts(), and drop getrejects().
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
Contact state is relatively bulky: it's a big chunk of struct natstr,
and adds almost 200 bytes per country to xdump nat for deities.
Contact changes rarely. Since we avoid unnecessary updates, it
doesn't change at all unless option HIDDEN is enabled. Rewriting it
to disk on every nation update and retransmitting it in every deity
xdump nat is wasteful.
To avoid this waste, move contact state to its own struct contactstr.
This is of course an xdump compatibility break. We're not maintaining
xdump compatibility in this release.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
The next commit will create a contact file, and the macro to get a
contact entry will be named getcontact(). Rename the existing
getcontact() out of the way.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
Several headers define macros that use ef_ptr() without including
"file.h". Fix that. Drop redundant inclusions elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
... when referring to a function's parameter or a struct/union's
member.
The idea of using FOO comes from the GNU coding standards:
The comment on a function is much clearer if you use the argument
names to speak about the argument values. The variable name
itself should be lower case, but write it in upper case when you
are speaking about the value rather than the variable itself.
Thus, "the inode number NODE_NUM" rather than "an inode".
Upcasing names is problematic for a case-sensitive language like C,
because it can create ambiguity. Moreover, it's too much shouting for
my taste.
GTK-Doc's convention to prefix the identifier with @ makes references
to variables stand out nicely. The rest of the GTK-Doc conventions
make no sense for us, however.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
Why upgrade? I'm not a lawyer, but here's my take on the differences
to version 2:
* Software patents: better protection against abuse of patents to
prevent users from exercising the rights under the GPL. I doubt
we'll get hit with a patent suit, but it's a good move just on
general principles.
* License compatibility: compatible with more free licenses, i.e. can
"steal" more free software for use in Empire. I don't expect to steal
much, but it's nice to have the option.
* Definition of "source code": modernization of some details for today's
networked world, to make it easier to distribute the software. Not
really relevant to us now, as we normally distribute full source code.
* Tivoization: this is about putting GPL-licensed software in hardware,
then make the hardware refuse to run modified software. "Neat" trick
to effectively deny its users their rights under the GPL. Abuse was
"pioneered" by TiVo (popular digital video recorders). GPLv3 forbids
it. Unlikely to become a problem for us.
* Internationalization: more careful wording, to harden the license
outside the US. The lawyers tell us it better be done that way.
* License violations: friendlier way to deal with license violations.
This has come out of past experience enforcing the GPL.
* Additional permissions: Probably not relevant to us.
Also include myself in the list of principal authors.
Relations checking with getrel() often needs a special case for "is
same country". If you forget, you get behavior appropriate for a
neutral foreign country, which is usually very wrong (see commit
16c68eb4 for an example).
Unlike getrel(), relations_with() considers countries allied to
themselves. Less dangerous. In fact, allied behavior is typically
just right, so the special case isn't even needed.
SLOW_WAR has issues:
* The check whether the attacker old-owns the attacked sector is
broken, because att_abort() uses sect.sct_oldown uninitialized.
Spotted by the Clang Static Analyzer.
* Its implementation in setrel() is somewhat scary. It's actually
okay, because that part of setrel() only runs within decl(). Other
callers don't reach it: update_main() because player->god != 0
there, and the rest because they never pass a rel < HOSTILE.
* Documentation is a bit vague.
SLOW_WAR hasn't been used in a public game in years. Fixing it is not
worth it, so remove it instead.
other. Ensure headers in include/ can be included in any order
(except for econfig-spec.h, which is special). New header types.h to
help avoid inclusion cycles. Sort include directives. Remove some
superflous includes.
