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<p class="purpose">Saving, restoring, restarting and verifying the program from within itself.</p>
<ul class="toc"><li><a href="S-stt.html#SP1">&#167;1. Environment</a></li><li><a href="S-stt.html#SP2">&#167;2. Verification</a></li><li><a href="S-stt.html#SP3">&#167;3. Save, restore, restart</a></li><li><a href="S-stt.html#SP4">&#167;4. Undo</a></li></ul><hr class="tocbar">
<p class="commentary firstcommentary"><a id="SP1" class="paragraph-anchor"></a><b>&#167;1. Environment. </b>The language "interpreter" here supposes that the eventual program is
running in a VM which is being interpreted, and that may not be the case,
but it's traditional.
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<span class="plain-syntax">[ </span><span class="identifier-syntax">VM_ReportOnInterpreter</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="reserved-syntax">if</span><span class="plain-syntax"> (</span><span class="identifier-syntax">standard_interpreter</span><span class="plain-syntax"> &gt; </span><span class="constant-syntax">0</span><span class="plain-syntax">) {</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="reserved-syntax">print</span><span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="string-syntax">"Standard interpreter "</span><span class="plain-syntax">,</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="identifier-syntax">standard_interpreter</span><span class="plain-syntax">/256, </span><span class="string-syntax">"."</span><span class="plain-syntax">, </span><span class="identifier-syntax">standard_interpreter</span><span class="plain-syntax">%256,</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="string-syntax">" ("</span><span class="plain-syntax">, </span><span class="identifier-syntax">HDR_TERPNUMBER</span><span class="plain-syntax">-&gt;0;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="reserved-syntax">print</span><span class="plain-syntax"> (</span><span class="identifier-syntax">char</span><span class="plain-syntax">) </span><span class="identifier-syntax">HDR_TERPVERSION</span><span class="plain-syntax">-&gt;0;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="reserved-syntax">print</span><span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="string-syntax">")^"</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> } </span><span class="reserved-syntax">else</span><span class="plain-syntax"> {</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="reserved-syntax">print</span><span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="string-syntax">"Interpreter "</span><span class="plain-syntax">, </span><span class="identifier-syntax">HDR_TERPNUMBER</span><span class="plain-syntax">-&gt;0, </span><span class="string-syntax">" Version "</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="reserved-syntax">print</span><span class="plain-syntax"> (</span><span class="identifier-syntax">char</span><span class="plain-syntax">) </span><span class="identifier-syntax">HDR_TERPVERSION</span><span class="plain-syntax">-&gt;0;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="reserved-syntax">print</span><span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="string-syntax">"^"</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> }</span>
<span class="plain-syntax">];</span>
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<p class="commentary firstcommentary"><a id="SP2" class="paragraph-anchor"></a><b>&#167;2. Verification. </b>This verifies that the current story file is intact.
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<span class="plain-syntax">[ </span><span class="identifier-syntax">VM_Verify</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> @</span><span class="identifier-syntax">verify</span><span class="plain-syntax"> ?</span><span class="identifier-syntax">Vmaybe</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="reserved-syntax">rfalse</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> .</span><span class="identifier-syntax">Vmaybe</span><span class="plain-syntax">; </span><span class="reserved-syntax">rtrue</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax">];</span>
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<p class="commentary firstcommentary"><a id="SP3" class="paragraph-anchor"></a><b>&#167;3. Save, restore, restart. </b>Restart does what it says: restarts the program as if it had just loaded for
the first time.
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<p class="commentary"><span class="extract"><span class="extract-syntax">VM_Save()</span></span> attempts to save the current state of the program to a file, and
returns 0 if this fails, 1 if this succeeds, or 2 if in fact a restore has
just succeeded. (A successful restoration should resume execution where the
save succeeded, but we want to distinguish those cases.)
</p>
<p class="commentary"><span class="extract"><span class="extract-syntax">VM_Restore()</span></span> pretends to return <span class="extract"><span class="extract-syntax">true</span></span> or <span class="extract"><span class="extract-syntax">false</span></span> according to whether or not
it succeeds, but in fact it can only return <span class="extract"><span class="extract-syntax">false</span></span> to indicate failure, because
a successful restoration means that execution has transferred to <span class="extract"><span class="extract-syntax">VM_Save</span></span>
instead.
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<span class="plain-syntax">[ </span><span class="identifier-syntax">VM_Restart</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> @</span><span class="identifier-syntax">restart</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax">];</span>
<span class="plain-syntax">[ </span><span class="identifier-syntax">VM_Restore</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="reserved-syntax">restore</span><span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="identifier-syntax">RMaybe</span><span class="plain-syntax">; </span><span class="reserved-syntax">rfalse</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> .</span><span class="identifier-syntax">RMaybe</span><span class="plain-syntax">; </span><span class="reserved-syntax">rtrue</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax">];</span>
<span class="plain-syntax">[ </span><span class="identifier-syntax">VM_Save</span><span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="identifier-syntax">flag</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> @</span><span class="reserved-syntax">save</span><span class="plain-syntax"> -&gt; </span><span class="identifier-syntax">flag</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="reserved-syntax">return</span><span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="identifier-syntax">flag</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax">];</span>
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<p class="commentary firstcommentary"><a id="SP4" class="paragraph-anchor"></a><b>&#167;4. Undo. </b>These also simply wrap the relevant opcodes.
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<span class="plain-syntax">[ </span><span class="identifier-syntax">VM_Undo</span><span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="identifier-syntax">result_code</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> @</span><span class="identifier-syntax">restore_undo</span><span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="identifier-syntax">result_code</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="reserved-syntax">return</span><span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="identifier-syntax">result_code</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax">];</span>
<span class="plain-syntax">[ </span><span class="identifier-syntax">VM_Save_Undo</span><span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="identifier-syntax">result_code</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> @</span><span class="identifier-syntax">save_undo</span><span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="identifier-syntax">result_code</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="reserved-syntax">return</span><span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="identifier-syntax">result_code</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax">];</span>
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