* New abbreviated types are in osd and util namespaces, and also in global namespace for things that #include "emu.h"
* Get rid of import of cstdint types to global namespace (C99 does this anyway)
* Remove the cstdint types from everything in emu
* Get rid of U64/S64 macros
* Fix a bug in dps16 caused by incorrect use of macro
* Fix debugcon not checking for "do " prefix case-insensitively
* Fix a lot of messed up tabulation
* More constexpr
* Fix up many __names
Use standard uint64_t, uint32_t, uint16_t or uint8_t instead of UINT64, UINT32, UINT16 or UINT8
also use standard int64_t, int32_t, int16_t or int8_t instead of INT64, INT32, INT16 or INT8
device_rtc_interface: Cleanups and refinements (nw)
- Give RTCs their own phase of machine initialization, right after NVRAM loading
- Make RTC feature flag overrides const, including one new one
- Make rtc_clock_updated a required override
* Eliminate globals/file statics
* Remove lots of stuff from global scope
* Use std::function for custom command registration
* Eliminate some trampolines
* Build fixes from Vas Crabb and balr0g
- Separate watchdog implementation from running_machine (once again) and driver_device
- Old-style methods, now hidden behind #ifdefs, will probably be safe to remove soon
- Boolean parameter to running_machine::run is no longer firstrun (which is now a member variable of mame_machine_manager) but quiet, which disables logging and audio recording without explicitly checking the system name.
- Sound recording is now turned on and off by explicit calls. The potential uses of this have not been explored.
- Dependencies reduced on drivenum.h, where the declaration for GAME_NAME(___empty) has been moved to.
* Make stream_format return characters printed
* Add iostreams with std::vector storage
* Move to type-safe templates for logerror and popmessage
* Remove now-unnecessary I64FMT from calls to logerror/popmessage
* Put some lib/util stuff in util:: namespace
* Some fixes to Japanese translation
- strprintf is unaltered, but strformat now takes one fewer argument
- state_string_export still fills a buffer, but has been made const
- get_default_card_software now takes no arguments but returns a string
Per-game parameters are (tag, value) pairs that follow the same tag
structure than everything else. They're added within a ROM section
with ROM_PARAMETER(tag, value). You look them up through the device
method parameter(tag) which returns the string, or "" if not present.
A *lot* of drivers can benefit from that stuff. It should kill most
game-name keyed tables, and the alternative approach of
bazillon-of-driver-inits.
Possible evolutions, if someone wants to do it:
- output them in -listxml
- push the softlist parameters present in the xml through that
- maybe allow to change/set them through the command line
