From: Philip Chimento Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 06:48:29 +0000 (-0700) Subject: git: Line endings of README.txt X-Git-Url: https://git.stderr.nl/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=HEAD;p=projects%2Fchimara%2Fchimara.git git: Line endings of README.txt --- diff --git a/interpreters/git/README.txt b/interpreters/git/README.txt index 4161fdd..35cd16a 100644 --- a/interpreters/git/README.txt +++ b/interpreters/git/README.txt @@ -1,277 +1,277 @@ -Git is an interpreter for the Glulx virtual machine. Its homepage is here: - -http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglulxXinterpretersXgit.html - -Git's main goal in life is to be fast. It's about five times faster than Glulxe, -and about twice as fast as Frotz (using the same Inform source compiled for the -Z-machine). It also tries to be reasonably careful with memory: it's possible to -trade speed off against memory by changing the sizes of Git's internal buffers. - -I wrote Git because I want people to be able to write huge games or try out -complicated algorithms without worrying about how fast their games are going to -run. I want to play City of Secrets on a Palm without having to wait ten seconds -between each prompt. - -Have fun, and let me know what you think! - - Iain Merrick (Original author) - iain@diden.net - - David Kinder (Current maintainer) - davidk.kinder@virgin.net - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -* Building and installing Git - -This is just source code, not a usable application. You'll have to do a bit of -work before you can start playing games with it. If you're not confident about -compiling stuff yourself, you probably want to wait until somebody uploads a -compiled version of Git for your own platform. - -Git needs to be linked with a Glk library in order to run. This can be easy or -hard, depending on what kind of computer you're using and whether you want Git -to be able to display graphics and play sounds. To find a suitable Glk library, -look here: - -http://eblong.com/zarf/glk/ -http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglkXimplementations.html - -Exactly how you build and link everything depends on what platform you're on and -which Glk library you're using. The supplied Makefile should work on any Unix -machine (including Macs with OS X), but you'll probably want to tweak it to -account for your particular setup. If you're not using Unix, I'm afraid you'll -have to play it by ear. If the Glk library you chose comes with instructions, -that's probably a good place to start. - -On Unix, git_unix.c contains the startup code required by the Glk library. -git_mac.c and git_windows.c contain startup code for MacGlk and WinGlk -respectively, but I can't guarantee that they're fully up-to-date. - -It should be possible to build Git with any C compiler, but it works best with -GCC, because that has a non-standard extension that Git can use for a big speed -boost. GCC 2.95 actually generates faster code than later versions, so if you -have a choice, use the former. (On OS X, this means compiling with 'gcc2'.) - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -* Configuring Git - -There are several configuration options you can use when compiling Git. Have a -look at config.h and see which ones look applicable to your platform. The -Makefile includes settings to configure Git for maximum speed on Mac OS X; the -best settings for other Unix platforms should be similar. - -The most important setting is USE_DIRECT_THREADING, which makes the interpreter -engine use GCC's labels-as-values extension, but this only works with GCC 2.95. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -* Porting to a new platform - -To do a new port, you first need to find a suitable Glk library, or write a new -one. Then you need to write the startup code. Start with a copy of git_unix.c, -git_mac.c or git_windows.c and modify it appropriately. - -The startup code needs to implement the following functions: - - void glk_main() // Standard Glk entrypoint - void fatalError(const char* s) // Display error message and quit - -In glk_main(), you need to locate the game file somehow. Then you have two -options. You can open the game as a Glk stream and pass it to this function: - - extern void gitWithStream (strid_t stream, - git_uint32 cacheSize, - git_uint32 undoSize); - -Or you can load the game yourself, and just pass Git a pointer to your buffer: - - extern void git (const git_uint8 * game, - git_uint32 gameSize, - git_uint32 cacheSize, - git_uint32 undoSize); - -If the operating system provides some way of memory-mapping files (such as -Unix's mmap() system call), you should do that and call git(), because it will -allow the game to start up much more quickly. If you can't do memory-mapping, -you should just open the game as a file stream and call gitWithStream(). Note -that some Glk libraries, such as xglk, aren't compatible with memory-mapped -files. - -"cacheSize" and "undoSize" tell Git what size to use for its two main internal -buffers. Both sizes are in bytes. You may want to make these values -user-configurable, or you may just want to pick values that make sense for your -platform and use those. (My Unix version currently uses fixed values, but I'm -going to add some optional command-line parameters to override these defaults.) - -"cacheSize" is the size of the buffer used to store Glulx code that Git has -recompiled into its internal format. Git will run faster with a larger buffer, -but using a huge buffer is just a waste of memory; 256KB is plenty. - -"undoSize" is the maximum amount of memory used to remember previous moves. The -larger you make it, the more levels of undo will be available. The amount of -memory required to remember one undo position varies from a few KB up to tens of -KB. 256KB is usually enough to store dozens of moves. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -* Known problems - -GCC 3 has bigger problems than I thought. On PowerPC, the direct threading -option results in much slower code; and on x86, terp.c crashes GCC itself if -direct threading is used. GCC 4 seems to work, given some very limited testing, -but still results in slow code. Therefore, I recommend that you use GCC 2.95 if -possible. If you only have GCC 3, don't define USE_DIRECT_THREADING. - -Some Glk libraries, such as xglk, can't deal with memory-mapped files. You can -tell that this is happening if Git can open .ulx files, but complains that .blb -files are invalid. The solution is to use gitWithStream() rather than git() in -your startup file, and make sure you're giving it a file stream rather than a -memory stream. If you're using the git_unix.c startup file, just make sure -USE_MMAP isn't defined. - -1-byte and 2-byte local variables are not implemented. This means git can't -play games created with old versions of the Superglus system. As these small -local variables now deprecated, it is unlikely that this will be fixed. - -In the search opcodes, direct keys don't work unless they're exactly 4 bytes -long. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -* Copyright information - -Note: previous versions of Git used an informal freeware license, but I've -decided it's worth formalising. As of version 1.2.3, I've switched to the -MIT license. - -Copyright (c) 2003 Iain Merrick - -Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of -this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in -the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to -use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of -the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, -subject to the following conditions: - -The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all -copies or substantial portions of the Software. - -THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR -IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS -FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR -COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER -IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN -CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -* Credits - -Andrew Plotkin invented Glulx, so obviously Git wouldn't exist without him. I -also reused some code from his Glulxe interpreter (glkop.c and search.c), which -saved me a lot of time and let me concentrate on the more interesting stuff. - -Many thanks are due to John Cater, who not only persuaded me to use source -control, but let me use his own CVS server. John also provided lots of useful -advice and encouragement, as did Sean Barrett. - -Thanks also to Joe Mason, Adam Thornton, Simon Baldwin and Joonas Pihlaja who -were among the first to try it out and complain that it wasn't working. Joonas -also gets special brownie points for trying out more bizarre boundary cases than -I realised existed in the first place. - -Tor Andersson was apparently the first person to use setmemsize, since he also -explained why it didn't work and contributed a fix. Thanks, Tor! - -David Kinder has done a stellar job of maintaining the code recently. Thanks -also to Eliuk Blau for tracking down bugs in the memory management opcodes. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -* Version History - -1.2.9 2011-08-28 Fixed a bug in glkop.c dispatching, to do with optional - array arguments, following a similar fix in Glulxe. - Glk array and string operations are now checked for memory - overflows (though not for ROM writing), following a similar - fix in Glulxe. - -1.2.8 2010-08-25 Fixed a problem with 'undo' when compiled as 64 bit, - contributed by Ben Cressey. - Fixed a sign problem for the @fceil opcode, following a - similar fix in Glulxe. - -1.2.7 2010-08-20 Floating point opcode support (VM spec 3.1.2). - Restart does not now discard undo information, so that a - restart can be undone. - -1.2.6 2010-02-09 Imported fix for retained Glk array handling from Glulxe. - -1.2.5 2009-11-21 Fixes for problems shown by Andrew Plotkin's glulxercise test - cases, from David Kinder. - -1.2.4 2009-04-02 More David Kinder! Accelerated opcode support (VM spec 3.1.1). - -1.2.3 2009-02-22 David Kinder and Eliuk Blau fixed some memory management bugs. - Added a regression test (thanks to Emily Short for assistance) - Switched to MIT-style license (see above). - -1.2.2 2009-01-21 malloc & mfree contributed by the most excellent David Kinder. - -1.2.1 2008-09-14 Support for 64-bit machines, contributed by Alexander Beels. - Fix for crashing bug in RESTORE, contributed by David Kinder. - Non-Unicode display bug fix, contributed by Jeremy Bernstein. - -1.2 2008-01-06 Minor version increment for VM spec 3.1. - Implemented mzero and mcopy, but not malloc and mfree (yet). - -1.1.3 2006-10-04 Fixed a bug in the cache logic that broke the game Floatpoint. - Added some other caching tweaks and put in a few more asserts. - -1.1.2 2006-08-22 streamnum in filter I/O mode no longer prints a garbage char. - Merged in David Kinder's updated Windows startup code. - -1.1.1 2006-08-17 Wow, over a year since the last update. - Rolled in Tor Andersson's fix for setmemsize. - -1.1 2004-12-22 Minor version increment because we now implement VM spec 3.0. - Implemented new Unicode opcodes and string types. - -1.0.6 2004-12-10 Random number generator now handles random(0) correctly. - Code cache now tracks the number of function calls properly. - Fixed a bug that could hang the terp when the cache filled up. - -1.0.5 2004-05-31 Random number generator is now initialised properly. - Some source files had Mac line-endings, now fixed. - Version number is now set in the Makefile, not in git.h. - Merged David Kinder's Windows Git code into main distribution. - -1.0.4 2004-03-13 Fixed a silly bug in direct threading mode that broke stkroll. - Memory access bounds checking has been tightened up slightly. - aload and astore now work correctly with negative offsets. - Rewrote the shift opcodes a bit more defensively. - Implemented the "verify" opcode. - Code in RAM is no longer cached by default. - Adding some special opcodes to control the code cache. - Bad instructions are now caught in the terp, not the compiler. - Now passes all of Joonas' indirect string decoding tests. - -1.0.3 2004-01-22 No longer hangs when using streamnum in the "filter" I/O mode. - setstringtbl opcode now works correctly. - -1.0.2 2003-10-25 Stupid bug in 1.0.1 -- gitWithStream() was broken and wasn't - able to load Blorb files. Now it's *really* fixed. - -1.0.1 2003-10-23 Fixed a bug where strings were printed as "[string]" - Fixed a bug in tailcall - Implemented setmemsize - Implemented protect - Moved git_init_dispatch() call out of startup code, into git.c - Added divide-by-zero check - Compiler now stops when it finds a 'quit' or 'restart' - Added gitWithStream() as a workaround for xglk - -1.0 2003-10-18 First public release - +Git is an interpreter for the Glulx virtual machine. Its homepage is here: + +http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglulxXinterpretersXgit.html + +Git's main goal in life is to be fast. It's about five times faster than Glulxe, +and about twice as fast as Frotz (using the same Inform source compiled for the +Z-machine). It also tries to be reasonably careful with memory: it's possible to +trade speed off against memory by changing the sizes of Git's internal buffers. + +I wrote Git because I want people to be able to write huge games or try out +complicated algorithms without worrying about how fast their games are going to +run. I want to play City of Secrets on a Palm without having to wait ten seconds +between each prompt. + +Have fun, and let me know what you think! + + Iain Merrick (Original author) + iain@diden.net + + David Kinder (Current maintainer) + davidk.kinder@virgin.net + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +* Building and installing Git + +This is just source code, not a usable application. You'll have to do a bit of +work before you can start playing games with it. If you're not confident about +compiling stuff yourself, you probably want to wait until somebody uploads a +compiled version of Git for your own platform. + +Git needs to be linked with a Glk library in order to run. This can be easy or +hard, depending on what kind of computer you're using and whether you want Git +to be able to display graphics and play sounds. To find a suitable Glk library, +look here: + +http://eblong.com/zarf/glk/ +http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglkXimplementations.html + +Exactly how you build and link everything depends on what platform you're on and +which Glk library you're using. The supplied Makefile should work on any Unix +machine (including Macs with OS X), but you'll probably want to tweak it to +account for your particular setup. If you're not using Unix, I'm afraid you'll +have to play it by ear. If the Glk library you chose comes with instructions, +that's probably a good place to start. + +On Unix, git_unix.c contains the startup code required by the Glk library. +git_mac.c and git_windows.c contain startup code for MacGlk and WinGlk +respectively, but I can't guarantee that they're fully up-to-date. + +It should be possible to build Git with any C compiler, but it works best with +GCC, because that has a non-standard extension that Git can use for a big speed +boost. GCC 2.95 actually generates faster code than later versions, so if you +have a choice, use the former. (On OS X, this means compiling with 'gcc2'.) + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +* Configuring Git + +There are several configuration options you can use when compiling Git. Have a +look at config.h and see which ones look applicable to your platform. The +Makefile includes settings to configure Git for maximum speed on Mac OS X; the +best settings for other Unix platforms should be similar. + +The most important setting is USE_DIRECT_THREADING, which makes the interpreter +engine use GCC's labels-as-values extension, but this only works with GCC 2.95. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +* Porting to a new platform + +To do a new port, you first need to find a suitable Glk library, or write a new +one. Then you need to write the startup code. Start with a copy of git_unix.c, +git_mac.c or git_windows.c and modify it appropriately. + +The startup code needs to implement the following functions: + + void glk_main() // Standard Glk entrypoint + void fatalError(const char* s) // Display error message and quit + +In glk_main(), you need to locate the game file somehow. Then you have two +options. You can open the game as a Glk stream and pass it to this function: + + extern void gitWithStream (strid_t stream, + git_uint32 cacheSize, + git_uint32 undoSize); + +Or you can load the game yourself, and just pass Git a pointer to your buffer: + + extern void git (const git_uint8 * game, + git_uint32 gameSize, + git_uint32 cacheSize, + git_uint32 undoSize); + +If the operating system provides some way of memory-mapping files (such as +Unix's mmap() system call), you should do that and call git(), because it will +allow the game to start up much more quickly. If you can't do memory-mapping, +you should just open the game as a file stream and call gitWithStream(). Note +that some Glk libraries, such as xglk, aren't compatible with memory-mapped +files. + +"cacheSize" and "undoSize" tell Git what size to use for its two main internal +buffers. Both sizes are in bytes. You may want to make these values +user-configurable, or you may just want to pick values that make sense for your +platform and use those. (My Unix version currently uses fixed values, but I'm +going to add some optional command-line parameters to override these defaults.) + +"cacheSize" is the size of the buffer used to store Glulx code that Git has +recompiled into its internal format. Git will run faster with a larger buffer, +but using a huge buffer is just a waste of memory; 256KB is plenty. + +"undoSize" is the maximum amount of memory used to remember previous moves. The +larger you make it, the more levels of undo will be available. The amount of +memory required to remember one undo position varies from a few KB up to tens of +KB. 256KB is usually enough to store dozens of moves. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +* Known problems + +GCC 3 has bigger problems than I thought. On PowerPC, the direct threading +option results in much slower code; and on x86, terp.c crashes GCC itself if +direct threading is used. GCC 4 seems to work, given some very limited testing, +but still results in slow code. Therefore, I recommend that you use GCC 2.95 if +possible. If you only have GCC 3, don't define USE_DIRECT_THREADING. + +Some Glk libraries, such as xglk, can't deal with memory-mapped files. You can +tell that this is happening if Git can open .ulx files, but complains that .blb +files are invalid. The solution is to use gitWithStream() rather than git() in +your startup file, and make sure you're giving it a file stream rather than a +memory stream. If you're using the git_unix.c startup file, just make sure +USE_MMAP isn't defined. + +1-byte and 2-byte local variables are not implemented. This means git can't +play games created with old versions of the Superglus system. As these small +local variables now deprecated, it is unlikely that this will be fixed. + +In the search opcodes, direct keys don't work unless they're exactly 4 bytes +long. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +* Copyright information + +Note: previous versions of Git used an informal freeware license, but I've +decided it's worth formalising. As of version 1.2.3, I've switched to the +MIT license. + +Copyright (c) 2003 Iain Merrick + +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of +this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in +the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to +use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of +the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, +subject to the following conditions: + +The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all +copies or substantial portions of the Software. + +THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR +IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS +FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR +COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER +IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN +CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +* Credits + +Andrew Plotkin invented Glulx, so obviously Git wouldn't exist without him. I +also reused some code from his Glulxe interpreter (glkop.c and search.c), which +saved me a lot of time and let me concentrate on the more interesting stuff. + +Many thanks are due to John Cater, who not only persuaded me to use source +control, but let me use his own CVS server. John also provided lots of useful +advice and encouragement, as did Sean Barrett. + +Thanks also to Joe Mason, Adam Thornton, Simon Baldwin and Joonas Pihlaja who +were among the first to try it out and complain that it wasn't working. Joonas +also gets special brownie points for trying out more bizarre boundary cases than +I realised existed in the first place. + +Tor Andersson was apparently the first person to use setmemsize, since he also +explained why it didn't work and contributed a fix. Thanks, Tor! + +David Kinder has done a stellar job of maintaining the code recently. Thanks +also to Eliuk Blau for tracking down bugs in the memory management opcodes. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +* Version History + +1.2.9 2011-08-28 Fixed a bug in glkop.c dispatching, to do with optional + array arguments, following a similar fix in Glulxe. + Glk array and string operations are now checked for memory + overflows (though not for ROM writing), following a similar + fix in Glulxe. + +1.2.8 2010-08-25 Fixed a problem with 'undo' when compiled as 64 bit, + contributed by Ben Cressey. + Fixed a sign problem for the @fceil opcode, following a + similar fix in Glulxe. + +1.2.7 2010-08-20 Floating point opcode support (VM spec 3.1.2). + Restart does not now discard undo information, so that a + restart can be undone. + +1.2.6 2010-02-09 Imported fix for retained Glk array handling from Glulxe. + +1.2.5 2009-11-21 Fixes for problems shown by Andrew Plotkin's glulxercise test + cases, from David Kinder. + +1.2.4 2009-04-02 More David Kinder! Accelerated opcode support (VM spec 3.1.1). + +1.2.3 2009-02-22 David Kinder and Eliuk Blau fixed some memory management bugs. + Added a regression test (thanks to Emily Short for assistance) + Switched to MIT-style license (see above). + +1.2.2 2009-01-21 malloc & mfree contributed by the most excellent David Kinder. + +1.2.1 2008-09-14 Support for 64-bit machines, contributed by Alexander Beels. + Fix for crashing bug in RESTORE, contributed by David Kinder. + Non-Unicode display bug fix, contributed by Jeremy Bernstein. + +1.2 2008-01-06 Minor version increment for VM spec 3.1. + Implemented mzero and mcopy, but not malloc and mfree (yet). + +1.1.3 2006-10-04 Fixed a bug in the cache logic that broke the game Floatpoint. + Added some other caching tweaks and put in a few more asserts. + +1.1.2 2006-08-22 streamnum in filter I/O mode no longer prints a garbage char. + Merged in David Kinder's updated Windows startup code. + +1.1.1 2006-08-17 Wow, over a year since the last update. + Rolled in Tor Andersson's fix for setmemsize. + +1.1 2004-12-22 Minor version increment because we now implement VM spec 3.0. + Implemented new Unicode opcodes and string types. + +1.0.6 2004-12-10 Random number generator now handles random(0) correctly. + Code cache now tracks the number of function calls properly. + Fixed a bug that could hang the terp when the cache filled up. + +1.0.5 2004-05-31 Random number generator is now initialised properly. + Some source files had Mac line-endings, now fixed. + Version number is now set in the Makefile, not in git.h. + Merged David Kinder's Windows Git code into main distribution. + +1.0.4 2004-03-13 Fixed a silly bug in direct threading mode that broke stkroll. + Memory access bounds checking has been tightened up slightly. + aload and astore now work correctly with negative offsets. + Rewrote the shift opcodes a bit more defensively. + Implemented the "verify" opcode. + Code in RAM is no longer cached by default. + Adding some special opcodes to control the code cache. + Bad instructions are now caught in the terp, not the compiler. + Now passes all of Joonas' indirect string decoding tests. + +1.0.3 2004-01-22 No longer hangs when using streamnum in the "filter" I/O mode. + setstringtbl opcode now works correctly. + +1.0.2 2003-10-25 Stupid bug in 1.0.1 -- gitWithStream() was broken and wasn't + able to load Blorb files. Now it's *really* fixed. + +1.0.1 2003-10-23 Fixed a bug where strings were printed as "[string]" + Fixed a bug in tailcall + Implemented setmemsize + Implemented protect + Moved git_init_dispatch() call out of startup code, into git.c + Added divide-by-zero check + Compiler now stops when it finds a 'quit' or 'restart' + Added gitWithStream() as a workaround for xglk + +1.0 2003-10-18 First public release +