Bearnip Lars LDMud LDMud 3.2.10

LDMud 3.2.10

Version: 3.2.10 Release Date: 30. May 2004 Maintained by: Lars "Mateese" Düning E-mail:	Download the source (2.9MB) from - Bearnip (USA) by HTTP (ditto as relative link) Older releases: 3.2.9, 3.2.8, 3.2.7, 3.2.6.
MD5-Sum: a216cf0a5c41e7b78a38c5af12655d19 ldmud-3210.tar.gz

About this release...

It took one year longer than expected, but this release of the driver delivers more improvements in both functionality and stability. With the advent of LDMud 3.3 this branch of the driver is heading towards maintenance-only, but I still hope that you enjoy this release and find it useful.

My thanks go to all my faithful testers and critics - without them I wouldn't have been able to deliver this work!

History

02-Feb-2003 (Lars Duening) -- Release 3.2.10

• Changed efuns:
  • debug_info(): Removed the DID_MEM_UNUSED value from the DINFO_DATA: DID_MEMORY result.
  • debug_info(): Added the DID_ST_MB_ values to the DINFO_DATA: DID_STATUS result.
  • debug_info(): The DINFO_DATA:"objects" dump also lists the object creation times.
  • debug_info(): Added DID_ST_BOOT_TIME to the DINFO_DATA: DID_STATUS result.
  • debug_info(): Added a third argument to DINFO_OBJLIST to return multiple objects.
  • function_exists(): now also returns the filename and linenumber of a function.
  • remove_action(): It is now possible to remove all actions an object defines.
  • save_object(), save_value(): The format of the saved data can be specified with an function argument.
  • set_connection_charset(), set_combine_charset(): Passing 0 as argument re-establishes the default charset.
  • sprintf(), printf(): Modifier '#' for '%O'/'%Q' prints the values in a compact format.
  • sprintf(), printf(): Format specifier '%b' prints a number in binary notation.
  • wizlist_info(): The evalcost statistic is now split into 'ticks' and 'gigaticks', and a second non-decaying evalcost statistic has been added.
• Corrected efuns:
  • find_call_out(): No longer throws an error when passed an unbound lambda to look for.
  • m_add(): Fixed a memory leak when existing entries were overwritten.
  • remove_input_to(): The proper noecho state is restored after removing a pending input handler.
  • restore_object(): The function leaked memory when restoring from a MALLOCed string.
  • to_array(): When converting a string, the characters are treated as unsigned.
• New efuns:
  • enable_telnet(): Enable or disable telnet for an interactive object.
  • get_combine_charset(), get_connection_charset(): Query the combine resp. connection charset.
  • get_max_commands(): Query the allowed command rate of an interactive object.
  • start_mccp_compress(), end_mccp_compress(), query_mccp(), query_mccp_stats(): Optional: MCCP support.
  • master(): Return the current master object.
  • m_entry(): Return all values for mapping entry at once.
  • net_connect(): Open a TCP connection.
  • rmember(): Search arrays and strings from the end.
  • set_max_commands(): Set the allowed command rate of an interactive object.
  • strrstr(): Search a string within a string backwards.
  • variable_exists(): Check the existance of a named variable.
  • variable_list(): Return all variable names of an object.
• Fixed Crashers:
  • Using break or continue in large programs caused bytecode corruption.
  • Function calls by address and global variable accesses are no longer possible after set_this_object().
  • Overflowing the value stack during a secure_apply() could crash the driver in the error recovery.
  • walk_mapping(): If the callback object was destructed before the first call, the efun crashed in the error handling.
  • Swapping of volatile strings could crash the driver.
  • H_COMMAND specifying an lfun by name which doesn't exist in the interactive object.
  • Using function_exists() or variable_exists() on a destructed object.
  • Editor: 'Z' given at the end of a file followed by two 'd' corrupted the internal text storage, which sometimes caused crashes.
• Language:
  • catch(; nolog) is now an official feature.
  • New modifier catch(; publish).
  • Constrained the switch() grammar so that only blocks are suitable as bodies.
  • Operator & can intersect mappings with other mappings and arrays.
  • Macro __MAX_MALLOC__ is defined to the internal upper limit for total memory usage.
  • Macro __MSDOS_FS__ is defined on systems using the MS-DOS filesystem conventions.
  • Preprocessor symbol __FILENAME_SPACES__ is defined if the driver is instructed to allow spaces in filenames.
  • A cast of a value to its own type, or a cast not resulting in a conversion operation generates a warning. The pragma no_warn_empty_casts can turn this warning off.
  • The strong_types/strict_types pragmas now persist beyond the end of an include file (as does every other pragma).
  • call_other()s on arrays of objects is now configurable; if enabled, the macro __LPC_ARRAY_CALLS__ is defined.
  • mapping &= mapping and mapping &= vector implemented.
  • Bugfix: Characters with the 8th bit set are now treated as positive when entered as literal character constants.
  • Bugfix: Illegal case ranges like '100..50' now generate an error message.
• Runtime:
  • Mapping are now compacted (apart from a GC) only, if a certain amount of time has elapsed since the last addition/removal of a key, and if either more than half of the condensed entries have been deleted, or if the number of hashed entries exceeds the number of (non-deleted) condensed entries.
  • A heart-beat error now longer aborts the heartbeat cycle.
  • The operators -=, *= and /= can now operate on int x float, yielding a float result.
  • Allowed longer program names in backtraces.
  • If the H_RESET/H_CREATE_* hooks are defined by name, static functions are found as well.
  • Bugfix: Subtracting arrays of closures from each other now actually identifies identical closures.
  • Bugfix: The smalloc allocator now re-uses free 'large' memory for small block chunks instead of always allocating them from the system.
• Other Changes:
  • Editor: Consecutive 'z' or 'Z' commands no longer repeat the previous current line.
  • Editor: Faulty commands 'quit'/'Quit' are caught before the text buffer is cleared.
  • Configuration option --enable-malloc-sbrk-trace to enable a log of all system memory requests including the stats of the memory allocation request causing it. The intention is to help debugging muds with high system memory usage.
  • Configuration option --with-optimize to set the optimization level in the generated Makefiles.
  • New commandline option --filename-spaces/--no-filename-spaces to allow or disallow space characters in filenames (default is to disallow them).

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