Sometimes pointers are casted to ULONG just to get an ID or tag - this
is fine for 32bit pointers, but 64bit pointers will truncate which might
result in not being so unique after all.
CRC-ing the pointer should yield a more likely to be unique 32bit value.
NULL is a special case that yields 0 instead of the CRC, so code that
handles IDs/Tags with value 0 differently will continue to work.
For 32bit builds, it just returns the pointer as ULONG.
introduced PLATFORM_32BIT and PLATFORM_64BIT macros, so you can do
#ifdef PLATFORM_64BIT if you need to.
I needed that for CDrawPort::GetID() to properly CRC a pointer.
Also added a sanity check in Engine/Base/Types.h that makes sure that
uintprt_t and size_t have the same size, as the code uses size_t to
store pointers (or cast from pointer to int) all over the place.
Made some "tags" from Engine/Templates/BSP_internal.h size_t instead of
ULONG - they're used to store pointers to identify vertices and such,
so they'd better be big enough to actually store a pointer.
Some more are still missing.
This was a _ton_ of changes, made 15 years ago, so there are probably some
problems to work out still.
Among others: Engine/Base/Stream.* was mostly abandoned and will need to be
re-ported.
Still, this is a pretty good start, and probably holds a world record for
lines of changes or something. :)
