- /talk now allows you to begin a conversation, given a player name, or end one, given no arguments.
- The client now properly clears previous messages when sending to the server.
- Added talkingWith to playerInfo.
- Added additional comments in sections functions that were unclear.
- Renamed targetIndex to sentCount, in order to clarify the usage of the variable.
- Linted according to the current SilverMUD style guide.
- Removed the old commandQueue type.
- Removed the functions relating to creating, pushing, popping, and peeking the commandQueues.
- Refactored the gameLogicHandler to use a queue type.
In short:
- When a large amount of input was recieved, the server would hang.
- The server would hang on queue->lock for the input queue, in pushQueue().
- Upon debugging, it was revealed that queue->lock was actually false at this time.
- GCC had optimized out the actual loop, leaving it to get stuck even though the variable had changed.
- Adding the volatile keyword to the lock fixed this issue.
- Brought SilverMUDClient.c to a consistent style.
- Cleaned and neatened various parts of SilverMUDClient.c.
- Minor cleanup of playerdata.h.
- Began writing the SilverMUD Style Guide.
- Removed outputQueue-test.c, because outputQueue no longer exists.
- Replaced previous inefficient "spin-waiting" with proper thread sleeping.
- Added threading primitives to the queue type to enable this.
- Added additional thread for output management.
- Miscellanous cleanup and restructuring.
- Patched a bug where I didn't set the correct type for queue nodes.
- Removed all traces of the previous outputMessageQueue type.
- Removed the pointer "next" in outputMessage.
- Rewrote the the main thread and game logic thread to use a queue for output.
- Refactored outputMessage to allow for a variable amount of playerInfo pointers.
- Removed all traces of the previous inputMessageQueue type.
- Removed the pointer "next" in inputMessage.
- Rewrote the the main thread and game logic thread to use a queue for input.
- Added a singular queue type for input/output messages and commands.
- Added a test of the queue type in tests.
- Made some edits to the Makefile to enable the addition of debug code using the preprocessor.
- Minor styling and spelling updates in gamelogic.c/h and text effects .h.
- Ready to integrate the new queue type in place of the previous ones.
- Moved all code relating to skills to use the new linked-lists.
- Removed all old code relating to other lists.
- Improved linked lists to get nodes more efficiently in the second half of the list.
- Refactored the server to rely on the linked-list version of area lists.
- Removed all old code pertaining to Area/Path lists.
- Removed a no-longer useful test for corestat-from string performance.y
- Removed the code for the now-obsolete-before-actually-being-used pathLists.
- playerAreas now contain a list called pathList.
- Refactored createArea, createPath, and the /move and /look commands.
- Added typedefs to prevent the compiler being unable to link.
- Implemented first pass of linked-list.c.
TODO:
- Polish linked-list.c 'till you can see a reflection in it.
- Refactor existing codebase to use linked-list.c.y
- Implemented skillCheck.
- Allowed for the in-game testing of skillCheck via /try.
- Slightly reorganized the Makefile.
- Tweaked the logoString to display correctly.
- Edited the client and server to generate gprof data when in debug builds.
- Adjusted the Makefile to create gprof data in the server (currently inactive as the server never terminates.)
- Fixed warnings in areadata.c and gamelogic.c.
- Added bruteforcePrint for completeness.
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Barry Kane