It can't be before "include.h" as that includes a bunch of system headers,
but it can't be after either as it also includes a bunch of local headers.
Therefore, it needs to be *in* include.h.
This was writing time_t to disk. Worse, the time_t member was at an
unaligned offset in the structure in question, so after the time_t
change the structure layout depended on compiler-inserted structure
padding. This gives three legacy formats: one with 32-bit time, one
with 64-bit time, and one with 64-bit time and 4 bytes of structure
padding.
And of course the file didn't have a header or version coding or
anything.
The new code writes a structure of well-defined size that should not
receive unexpected padding, and gives the file a header and version
number. It reads that format and any of the three legacy formats,
figuring out which one it's dealing with by inspecting the file
contents. For good measure, it also now handles opposite-endian files,
doesn't bail out unceremoniously unless necessary, and won't croak if
the file is corrupt and e.g. contains unterminated strings.
(Was it worth going to this length? Maybe not. But it didn't seem
right to just leave it, and it's not clear where to stop halfway.)
Some object file diffs, but they are harmless. (Mostly they seem to
come from internal counters in gcc... and in one case the order of two
instructions was harmlessly swapped, which is odd and annoying.)
neither has done anything in a long long time. Add previously
undocumented -s/-f (slow vs. fast) options, although I question the
utility thereof and suspect they should just be removed.
Bump date (first time since 1993)
numbers out.
This changes the "tournament codes"; that is, the same code will give
you a different game now from what it used to. (This is because the
codes are basically random seeds.) I really really doubt anyone cares
about this, especially since the tournament feature appears to be
undocumented.
Default to "fast mode" as ~nobody has a 300 baud terminal any more.
("Fast mode" apparently controls whether short-range scans are printed
by default at certain times.)
dholland