Although delegate pages store references to objects on the heap,
adding/removing objects from a delegate does not affect their reference
counts. When an object that is a member of a delegate is deleted, it is
automatically removed from the delegate.
In practice, this means that every object needs to keep a list of
delegates that it belongs to. This increases the size of the page header
on 64 bit systems, but not by much since the additional metadata can be
stored in a union with the array-specific metadata.
1. DG_CALL has to clean up the stack before jumping to the return
address.
2. DG_SET (contrary to its name) is an append operation; it's basically
a combination of DG_NEW_FROM_METHOD and DG_PLUSA.
3. DG_SET and DG_PLUSA need to check for and ignore duplicates.
4. Delegate pages store *references* to structs; the VM should NOT copy
the struct page when copying a delegate page.
This is a serialization interface for a particular struct type. I've
implemented it somewhat generically, only checking that the name of the
struct matches the expected type. The actual structure of the objects
passed in is not checked, and in fact this structure differs between
games.
The serialized data produced by ADVSceneKeeper.Save should be identical
to what's produced by AnteaterADVEngine.dll from Shaman's Sanctuary.
ref types are currently passed to HLL functions as pointers into the
heap. If the HLL function itself needs to allocate memory from the heap,
it can cause the heap to be reallocated, rendering these heap pointers
invalid.
In order to work around this, hll_call now guarantees 64 slots are
available on the heap before calling any HLL function. This is not a
great solution, but it should work to the extent that HLL functions only
allocate a fixed number of heap slots < 64.
This bug could be easily triggered by scrolling up on the message log in
Sengoku Rance.
- Create separate directories for source and header files.
- Build code shared between xsystem4 and aindump as a static library.
- Create header dirs gfx/ system4/ and vm/
- Make CG.c/h usable without a running VM
Nunuhara Cabbage