[Quake-C] qc++

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Hey guys!

Finally took a minute out of my busy coding schedule to join.  :-)

Trying to get some version of quake-hack released by christmas...

I'll post here when I have updates on qc: http://www.moddb.com/groups/qc

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As far as a clean version of qc.

I'm curious as to exactly what your "clean" is.  Kind of subjective.
Bug and warning free?

I have to caution you, fteqcc has freaking warning overload.  Any, 
little, thing.  Compile with "-Wall" to be amazed.


Years back I was doing a log of work with frikqcc and I eradicated all 
those compiler warnings.
The original release had a ton.  That fixes a few hidden bugs too.  And 
makes it easier to find new problems.


I've killed most of the bugs in the release I made: 
http://www.moddb.com/games/quake/downloads/quake-c-version-106
And hipnotic: 
http://www.moddb.com/games/quake/downloads/hipnotic-quake-c-release

But as we all know, there are still a few bugs hiding in there.


More recently I had to switch to fteqcc.  The Archon project: 
http://www.moddb.com/mods/chaos-archon
blew the 32768 global limit in quake under frikqcc.

When I moved to the new compiler I fixed many of the quirky little 
things with #define wrappers: 
http://www.moddb.com/games/quake/downloads/quake-c-version-106-recoded

Some things dont cause warnings, and arent bugs - just how quake-c was 
originally written.
"Fixing" them can potentially change game play, so I wrapped them.  Take 
out the main define and they come back.


I've focused a lot of my programming effort on a smaller size progs.dat 
with lower global usage.
I think I might be kind of obsessive about this.

I've come up with a method for "true" local variables.  Whether or not 
you realize, every local, every global,
every function parameter, every function declaration, every unique 
string, every unique literal - all take up global slots.

The "locus" method uses an entity and #define macros to store data in a 
special entity.
The same can be done with globals...  Think I'll call that method 
"globus".

The next method for reducing globals is the framer macro.  The old frame 
macro uses 1 global for every frame -
it makes a funciton declaration.  So I made a loop function in a macro, 
to cut down on that.

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What I want to do next with quake-c once quake-hack is rolling along 
after the beta release, and I get back to
the Archon project.

A darkplaces only quake-c.  My mods have pretty much become dp only, so 
why not.
I'm piloting much of the code in qc++ right now.

This is going to be a radical re-code using darkplaces extensions 
heavily.
No attempt is going to be made to ensure complete v1.06 compatibility.

A reasonable effort will be made to ensure a very similar game play.

I'm planning on stripping out most spawn functions, using the new framer 
macro for all frame code
and eliminating much redundant code.  (v1.06 re-coded already has a bit 
of this)

Most large strings will be replaced with cvar_string (if I can get the 
damn intermission text to print...)

This will be a much different beast.

Stay frosty!

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