- Removed LOADBYNAME, since it is deprecated by using per device rom load_software_part_region
- Created makedev tool to generate array of devices, and created lst file according to current devices usage.
- Changed listxml command to output device roms too
Low-level input upgrade. Classes now exist for input_codes, input_items,
input_devices, and input_seqs. Also created an input_manager class to
hold machine-global state and made it accessible via machine.input().
Expanded the device index range (0-255, up from 0-16), and the OSD can
now specify the device index explicitly if they can better keep the
indexes from varying run-to-run. [Aaron Giles]
Note that I've built and run SDL on Windows, but not all the code paths
were exercised. If you use mice/joysticks extensively double-check them
to be sure it all still works as expected.
This is mainly an OSD and core change. The only thing impacting drivers
is if they query for specific keys for debugging. The following S&Rs
took care of most of that:
S: input_code_pressed( *)\(( *)([^, ]+) *, *
R: \3\.input\(\)\.code_pressed\1\(\2
S: input_code_pressed_once( *)\(( *)([^, ]+) *, *
R: \3\.input\(\)\.code_pressed_once\1\(\2
loader rewrite, which is still in progress....)
Replaced mamedriv.c with a new driver list mechanism that is generated
by the build tools. The emulator core now expects the presence of a
file called src/$(TARGET)/$(SUBTARGET).lst which is just a raw list of
driver names, one per line. C and C++ comments are still permitted.
This file is parsed by a new build tool makelist which extracts the
driver names, sorts them, and generates a file called drivlist.c, which
is consumed by the core. [Aaron Giles]
Added new osdcore function osd_malloc_array() which is identical to
osd_malloc() but obviously hints that the underlying allocation is for
an array. Updated all callers to use the appropriate form. Modified the
Windows allocator to only use guard pages for array-style allocations,
allowing us to enable them once again in debug builds. [Aaron Giles]
Created new static class driver_list to wrap accesses to the list of
available drivers. Improved speed of driver lookups by relying on the
presorting done by makelist. [Aaron Giles]
Created helper class driver_enumerator as a helper for iterating through
the list of drivers. This class supports basic filtering and iteration,
and also serves as a temporary cache of machine_configs. [Aaron Giles]
Created cli_frontend object to wrap all the CLI handling code in
clifront.c. Updated/simplified all the code to take advantage of the
driver_enumerator. [Aaron Giles]
Created media_auditor object to wrap all the auditing functions in
audit.c. Updated all users to the new interface. Note that the new
auditing mechanism is slightly out of sync with the romload code in
terms of finding ROMs owned by devices, so it may mis-report some
issues until the new ROM loading code is in. [Aaron Giles]
Added concept of a per-device searchpath. For most devices, their
searchpath is just the short name of the device. For driver_devices, the
searchpath is driver[;parent[;bios]]. This searchpath will eventually be
used by the rom loader to find ROMs. For now it is used by the media
auditor only. [Aaron Giles]
Created info_xml_creator object to wrap all the info generation functions
in info.c. Converted the file to C++ and cleaned up the input processing
code. [Aaron Giles]
(not for whatsnew ... Known issues: auditing of CHDs appears busted, and
debug builds report unfreed memory if you use the built-in game picker)
Does basic dependency analysis and supports excluding paths.
Makefile now supports a depend target which will run makedep
on the src/$(TARGET) tree and create dependencies. It deliberately
excludes the root of src/emu as well as the osd directories in
order to keep the dependency file down to a reasonable size, so
if a core header file changes, you still need to clean and build
all.
"png2bdf" instead of "png2bdc"; this changes it by retrieving
the name of the executable at runtime, so it will always
be correct now. [Christophe Jaillet]
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 11:50 PM
To: submit@mamedev.org
Subject: Memory Leaks
This patch fixes a few potential memory leaks detected by cppcheck
and also adds an errormessage to verinfo.
Subject: [patch] make MSVC_BUILD=1 -j<n> build fix
Hi mamedev,
The following build tweak fixes make MSVC_BUILD=1 -j2. It also fixes
an oversight in the cross-build support.
~aa
to use the macros.
Added the concept of device classes. Devices specify their class
in their get_info function. Classes can be used to walk through
devices at a more general level than their type. Functions have
been added to iterate through devices by class just as you can
by type.
Removed some unused fields from device_config.
* verinfo: New syntax.
verinfo now uses the following syntax: verinfo.exe -b windows|winui|mess.
Does not depend on compile time defines any longer.
* makefile will include - if it exists - src/osd/$(CROSS_BUILD_OSD)/build.mak.
This was necessary to enable cross builds for winui. winui adds mkhelp to build tools and the rules for mkhelp thus had to be moved outside src/osd/winui/winui.mak
* Tested on Linux 64bit, Linux 32bit, Windows 32bit mingw, Windows 32bit MSVC
* Cross build environment to be posted to the list
Hi mamedev,
Here's my periodic batch of code cleanups. The usual batch of adding static/const plus some include fixes. In addition, I reverted some of the changes to build.mak from u1 which made some MSVC builds fail, and adjusted/optimized an m10.c gfx_layout. I also added some missing cores to cpuintrf.c, sndintrf.c and added some missing #if's to 5220intf.c.
~aa
Subject: [patch] Fix some comments
Hi mamedev,
The following patch updates the initialization comments at the top of
mame.c and corrects/adds a few filename declarations at the top of a
handful of files.
~aa
- removed years from copyright notices
- removed redundant (c) from copyright notices
- updated "the MAME Team" to be "Nicola Salmoria and the MAME Team"
