midend_status(), and given it three return codes for win, (permanent)
loss and game-still-in-play. Depending on what the front end wants to
use it for, it may find any or all of these three states worth
distinguishing from each other.
(I suppose a further enhancement might be to add _non_-permanent loss
as a fourth distinct status, to describe situations in which you can't
play further without pressing Undo but doing so is not completely
pointless. That might reasonably include dead-end situations in Same
Game and Pegs, and blown-self-up situations in Mines and Inertia.
However, I haven't done this at present.)
[originally from svn r9179]
additions of missing 'static' and explicit 'void' in parameter lists,
plus one or two other things like explicitly casting chars in variadic
argument lists to int and using DBL_MAX if HUGE_VAL isn't available.
[originally from svn r9166]
state is in a solved position, and a midend function wrapping it.
(Or, at least, a situation in which further play is pointless. The
point is, given that game state, would it be a good idea for a front
end that does that sort of thing to proactively provide the option to
start a fresh game?)
[originally from svn r9140]
- sometimes two regions would get the same letter
- immutable numbers could sometimes be modified
- immutable numbers are now not flagged as errors when they clash
(same as Solo's policy)
[originally from svn r8882]
reported as potentially-unused. (In fact, as far as I can tell, it's
only ever uninitialised in assertion-failing code paths, so not a
real bug.)
[originally from svn r8873]
assertion I crudely commented out has now been replaced with code
that clearly shows what you did wrong in the failing situation.
[originally from svn r8872]
long chain to a square numbered so low that the start of the chain
would have to go into negative numbers should not crash the game,
particularly when it happens as a momentary in-passing illustration.
I've fixed it for the moment just by removing the assertion. There's
probably a better fix which causes something less strange to happen
to the display as a result.
[originally from svn r8867]
