This to prevent compilation issues between runs with and without precompiled
headers. Also remove the headers from the rest of the code base as they are
not needed there anymore, although they do relatively little harm.
LoadCheck makes it sound like something is really broken while
loading savegames, while it really is perfectly normal, as most
chunks do not implement LoadCheck.
We won't be able to make it fully self-descriptive (looking at you
MAP-chunks), but anything else can. With this framework, we can
add headers for each chunk explaining how each chunk looks like
in detail.
They also will all be tables, making it a lot easier to read in
external tooling, and opening the way to consider a database
(like SQLite) to use as savegame format.
Lastly, with the headers in the savegame, you can freely add
fields without needing a savegame version bump; older versions
of OpenTTD will simply ignore the new field. This also means
we can remove all the SLE_CONDNULL, as they are irrelevant.
The next few commits will start using this framework.
This makes it easier to spot chunks that have a save_proc that
is a nullptr, but also prevents confusion, where it looks like
the CH_ type of a chunk has influence on how it is being read.
It is not, it is only used for saving.
This means that during loading we can validate that what is saved
is also that what is expected. Additionally, this makes all list
types similar to how they are stored on disk:
First a gamma to indicate length, followed by the data.
The size still depends on the type.
In the end, the code was already doing the right thing, but a few
functions deep, and not really obvious. When validating what objects
can handle SLE_VAR_NULL, it is nicer to just have this obvious.
Using SL_ARR for this gives us a bit of trouble later on, where we
add a length-field to SL_ARR. This of course is not the intention
of SLE_CONDNULL. So better seperate it.
The current SaveLoad is a bit inconsistent how long a length field
is. Sometimes it is a 32bit, sometimes a gamma. Make it consistent
across the board by making them all gammas.
This helps external tooling to understand if a SL_STRUCT should
be skipped when reading. Basically, this transforms an SL_STRUCT
into a SL_STRUCTLIST with either 0 or 1 length.
This wasn't consistently done, and often variables were used that
were read by an earlier blob. By moving it next to the struct
itself, the code becomes a bit more self-contained and easier to
read.
Additionally, this allows for external tooling to know how many
structs to expect, instead of having to know where to find the
length-field or a hard-coded value that can change at any moment.
Patric Stout
Rubidium
Loïc Guilloux
frosch
Tyler Trahan
Kuhnovic
Peter Nelson
axet
Charles Pigott
dP
Stephan
glx22