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<title>mike/sst/src/gamedata.c, branch v0.18-BETA</title>
<subtitle>Source Speedrun Tools: practice tools and handy features for Source Engine games</subtitle>
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<updated>2025-04-06T15:41:13+00:00</updated>
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<title>Rewrite and redesign codegen and feature system</title>
<updated>2025-04-06T15:41:13+00:00</updated>
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<name>Michael Smith</name>
<email>mikesmiffy128@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2025-03-10T02:37:19+00:00</published>
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Also switch to somewhat proper C23 flags while we're at it.

This is a huge change. It took me forever, in between being really busy.
Sorry about that. But the good news is I'm now free to start integrating
the various patches that have accumulated since last release. Well, at
least in between still being really busy. Gotta manage expectations.

The main benefit of introducing GAMESPECIFIC() is that features
that don't apply to a particular game no longer show up *at all*, and
less time is wasted on init. It also enables a cool optimisation wherein
unnecessary REQUIRE_GAMEDATA() checks can elided at compile time
whenever the gamedata is known up-front to always exist in supported
games.

The DEF_FEAT_CVAR macro family meanwhile makes it easier to manage the
lifecycle of cvars/ccmds, with less manual registering, unhiding and
such.

Originally I was going to try and just hack these features into the
existing codegen abomination, but it just got too terrible. This rewrite
should make it easier to continue tweaking codegen behaviour in future.
It also has slightly better error messages.
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<title>Deal with the stupid NVDTOR situation</title>
<updated>2024-05-21T20:25:19+00:00</updated>
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<name>Michael Smith</name>
<email>mikesmiffy128@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2024-05-21T20:25:19+00:00</published>
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Bill suggested using abi.h for this. Not sure if it's 100% ideal to need
to pull in the whole header for this one macro but it's arguably better
than most alternatives and definitely better than just continuing to
duplicate it ad nauseam.
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<title>Prune some comments and tidy up other minor things</title>
<updated>2023-06-10T15:51:02+00:00</updated>
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<name>Michael Smith</name>
<email>mikesmiffy128@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2023-06-10T15:44:19+00:00</published>
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<title>Move towards C23, improve events and vcall macros</title>
<updated>2022-09-13T21:50:30+00:00</updated>
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<name>Michael Smith</name>
<email>mikesmiffy128@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2022-09-13T20:46:21+00:00</published>
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Another big one. Here's a list of things:

- Since the upcoming C23 standardises typeof(), use it as an extension
  for the time being in order to allow passing arbitrary types as
  macro/codegen parameters. It wouldn't have been a big leap to do this
  even without standardisation since it's apparently an easy extension
  to implement - and also, to be honest, this project is essentially glued
  to Clang anyway so who cares.

- Likewise, bool, true and false are becoming pre-defined, so
  pre-pre-define them now in order to get the benefit of not having to
  remember one header everywhere.

- Really ungodly/amazing vcall macro stuff now allows us to call C++
  virtual functions like regular C functions. It's pretty cool!

- Events can now take arbitrary parameters and come in two types:
  regular events and predicates.

All this makes the base code even uglier but makes the feature
implementation nicer. In other words, it places more of the cognitive
burden on myself and less on other people who might want to contribute.
This is a good tradeoff, because I'm a genius.
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<title>Spruce up text and fix some copyright years</title>
<updated>2022-03-19T04:36:59+00:00</updated>
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<name>Michael Smith</name>
<email>mikesmiffy128@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2022-03-19T04:36:59+00:00</published>
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Sometimes, you just want to Unicode.
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<title>Initial public snapshot</title>
<updated>2021-11-20T03:18:08+00:00</updated>
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<name>Michael Smith</name>
<email>mikesmiffy128@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2021-11-20T03:10:50+00:00</published>
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With code from Bill. Thanks Bill!
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