[Scummvm-devel] String fragments and system strings in SCI

[Max Horn]

Am 16.09.2009 um 00:54 schrieb Walter van Niftrik:

> Hi Max,
>
> Max Horn wrote:
>> Why again do we need to store and handle both raw and reg_t based   
>> data? (Considering that the original engine apparently didn't do   
>> that) ? As opposed to always storing data raw, or always storing  
>> it  reg_t based?
>>
>
> My comments were based on the current practical situation, where not  
> every segment is reg_t-based. For some it should be easy to correct  
> this, but e.g. there are also strings that are embedded in the  
> scripts. As we don't want to change the whole script to reg_t, maybe  
> the best solution there is to relocate the strings to another reg_t- 
> based segment.

OK, to go one level deeper: why do we base some segments on reg_t at  
all? :)

Cheers,
Max