Three behaviors from 5.4.4 that the port dropped silently. Each is a few
lines; grouped because they are all "restore something C did".
1. sticks.c 237: the "otherwise" arm closing do_zap's switch printed
"what a bizarre schtick!", and doZap had turned it into doing nothing.
The arm is under #ifdef MASTER, not under a runtime wizard test, so in
the MASTER build this port is it printed for every player and must not
be gated on g.Wizard. WS_NOP is a case of that switch in its own right
("when WS_NOP: break;"), so "no handler ran" cannot be the trigger:
the wand of nothing does nothing quietly. C's switch covers all 14 WS_
values, so its otherwise is reachable only for an o_which outside the
table, which is what Object.hasValidWhich already screens for. All
three arms fall through to obj.Charges--, as C's do.
2. command.c 288-291: CTRL('R') is "after = FALSE; clearok(curscr, TRUE);
wrefresh(curscr);" — a forced full repaint. The port called
g.refresh(), the ordinary diffing blit, which cannot fix the only
situation the command exists for: a screen corrupted by another
program's output leaves the game's record of it still correct, so the
diff sends nothing. New Terminal.Repaint (tcell Screen.Sync, which
discards tcell's record of the terminal rather than diffing against
it), Screen.Repaint and g.repaint(), implemented in term.Tcell and in
both headless test terminals. Named for the curses operation: the
interface is the game's abstraction, not tcell's. It repaints what was
last rendered — C repainted curscr, not stdscr — so it takes no
window.
3. main.c 107-113: the startup greeting existed nowhere in the tree. New
game.Greeting, printed on stdout by cmd/rogue/main.go before
term.New(), the port's initscr(). Only the wizard wording is #ifdef
MASTER; the other is unconditional. The %d is dnum, which main.c has
just assigned to seed, so it is Params.Seed. Neither wording ends in a
newline. Two placement details the tests pin: the printf sits after
parse_opts, so a ROGUEOPTS name= is what the player is greeted by; and
it sits after the -s/-d handling and after restore(), which never
returns, so a resumed game does not announce that a dungeon is being
dug (digsNewDungeon).
Greeting parses ROGUEOPTS into a throwaway game built the way New builds
the real one, tables and home directory included: ParseOpts handles every
option, not just the one the greeting reads, and inven= is matched
against inv_t_name[], which lives on the game.
All three message strings verified byte-for-byte against origin/c-master
sticks.c and main.c. No RNG call is added on any path and nothing under
game/testdata/ changed; TestSeedCompatItemTables is green against the
untouched golden.
Mutation-proved, each behavior removed in turn with only its own test
failing: dropping the message arm fails
TestZapUnhandledWandSaysBizarreSchtick; extending the message to WS_NOP
fails TestZapWandOfNothingIsSilent; putting g.refresh() back fails
TestRedrawCommandForcesFullRepaint; swapping the two wordings, and
ignoring the ROGUEOPTS name, both fail TestGreeting; greeting on the
restore path fails TestDigsNewDungeon.
ARCHITECTURE.md 5.3 gains Repaint and why a blit cannot substitute for
it; nothing here is deliberately dropped, so section 9 is unchanged.
TODO.md gets a Completed Steps entry; Next Step deliberately not rotated,
this being out-of-band issue work.
C's command.c 317-338 has a `when '+'` arm in the main command switch,
under #ifdef MASTER, that toggles wizard mode. The port had no '+' at
all, so the key fell through dispatchKey's default to illcom and
answered "illegal command '+'".
The password half of that arm was dropped deliberately (wizard mode is
ROGUE_WIZARD configuration) and is recorded in ARCHITECTURE.md section
9. The leave half was lost silently, and it is a different decision: it
does not touch the password machinery. The substantive part of it is
turn_see(TRUE) rather than the flag -- wizard sight draws every monster
the hero cannot see, so without the re-hide there is no way back to
normal visibility, and clearing the flag alone would leave the screen
lying.
New wizardToggleCommand, registered in commandHandlers between '^' and
Escape, which is C's own switch order. Because C's arm sits in the main
switch rather than the `if (wizard) switch (ch)` sub-switch that
wizardCommand ports, it is reachable whether or not wizard is set, so
the non-wizard case was a divergence too. It resolves the way the
dropped passwd() forces: a password check that no longer exists can
never succeed, so the else arm is what C did on a wrong answer -- the
message "sorry", with no prompt, since nothing typed into one could
change the outcome, and none of the noscore/turn_see(FALSE) bookkeeping
of C's unreachable success branch. The choice is stated in the doc
comment and in section 9.
Two tests drive '+' through g.dispatch. The wizard one spawns a phantom
(ISINVIS straight from the monster table, so seeMonst is false and it is
on screen only because wizard sight put it there), asserts the
precondition, then asserts the flag cleared, SenseMonsters cleared, the
cell restored to the map char under the monster with standout off, the
exact message text, and After false. Deleting the turnSee(true) call
fails it on all three visibility assertions. The other pins "sorry".
No RNG call is added: the turn_off arm of turn_see never reaches rnd.
TestSeedCompatItemTables is green against the untouched golden.
createObj stored the raw 0-f nibble as Object.Which with no bounds
check, so wizard mode -> C -> / -> f made a wand numbered 15 against a
14-entry table and panicked in fixStick. Input outside 0-f overshoots
much further rather than going negative: readchar returns a byte, so
the int(ch-'a') + 10 branch is byte arithmetic and wraps, giving 234
for 'A' and 202 for '!', and panicked the same way. C's create_obj()
was equally unchecked, but its consumers were either switches (defined
for any value) or static-array reads past the end (undefined, and
survivable in practice). Since one game is now one process, the Go
panic kills the game outright and leaves the terminal in raw mode.
Reject at the two boundaries a bad Which can enter through. createObj
now refuses an out-of-range choice with a message drawn from C's own
type_name() vocabulary and adds nothing to the pack, a deliberate
divergence recorded in a comment because C had no defined behavior here
to be faithful to. Restore refuses a snapshot describing such an object
(ErrSaveCorrupt) rather than loading a game that would explode later. A
decoded snapshot is also the only source of a genuinely negative Which,
Which being a plain int off the wire, so it is what the Which >= 0 arm
of hasValidWhich defends against.
Behind those, whichLimit/hasValidWhich back defensive guards at every
dispatch the issue names: the quaffHandler/readHandler/zapHandler
accessors return no handler instead of indexing (for wands that is
exactly what non-MASTER C did, matching no case and still running
o_charges--), the callIt lore lookups, identifyType, armorClass for the
a_class[] reads, initWeapon against the missing init_dam[] row for
WeaponFlame, fixStick's ws_type[] read, and inventoryName and
objectWorth, hoisted so one check each covers the whole family of
per-kind name and appraisal tables. identifyType's bound is defensive
rather than live: readHandlers registers readIdentify only for the
identify scrolls, all of which sit inside the shorter idType table.
No in-range input changes behavior and no guard consumes a random
number: the rejection precedes every rnd() call. TestSeedCompatItemTables
stays green untouched.
New game/wizard_test.go covers the exact reproducer, a rejection sweep
over every indexed kind including the wrapped values from input outside
0-f, an acceptance sweep proving valid choices still build the right
item, one no-panic test per guarded family, the fixStick crash site, the
corrupt-save rejection over both the wrapped values and a negative
Which, and a check that whichLimit still agrees with the table sizes.
Each guard was confirmed load-bearing by reverting it and watching the
test fail.
TODO.md records the step; Next Step is deliberately left alone, since
this arrived out of band via an issue.
Replace .golangci.yml with the shared canonical config. The old
config's top-level linters-settings block was silently ignored under
the v2 schema, so the lll/funlen/cyclop/dupl thresholds now actually
apply. The four repo-specific disables (mnd, exhaustive, paralleltest,
testpackage) move out of the config into targeted in-code nolint
directives carrying their original approval dates, keeping the config
byte-identical to the canonical one.
Fixes surfaced by the stricter settings: t.Parallel() added to all 32
tests, 24 overlong lines wrapped or their comments tightened, tcell
control-code returns rewritten as character literals, dupl markers on
the identically-shaped item data tables, and two wsl_v5 defer cuddles.
No behavior changes. The repo has no golangci-lint version pin (no
Dockerfile or CI; make lint runs the host binary, currently v2.12.2),
so there was nothing to bump.
runDaemon's switch becomes gameData.daemonHandlers (the C d_func
function pointers restored as method expressions); stomach splits into
stomachFaint/stomachDigest; visuals gains visualMonsters. daemons.go
is complexity-clean. Behavior and RNG call order unchanged.
The be_trapped switch becomes gameData.trapHandlers with one trap*
method per trap kind (mystery messages split in two); moveHero splits
into moveTarget/moveResolve/moveEnter/moveOnto/offMap; passageTurn
gains per-axis passageTurnVertical/Horizontal. move.go is
complexity-clean. Behavior and RNG call order unchanged.
The ordinary command keys move into gameData.commandHandlers (method
expressions and small literals); dispatchKey keeps only re-dispatching
prefixes (runCommand/fightCommand/repeatCommand/moveOnCommand) and the
wizard fallthrough. command() splits into playTurn/turnUpkeep/
readCommand/executeCommand/countPrefix/ringTurnEffects; search gains
searchSpot/searchFloor; help gains helpOne/helpAll/helpLines; call
gains callTarget/callPrelude; wizardCommand splits in two plus
wizardKit; uLevel and current flatten to early returns. command.go is
complexity-clean. Behavior and RNG call order unchanged.
The monster special-power switch in attack becomes
gameData.hitHandlers (indexed by monster letter); attack splits into
monsterHit/monsterMiss; fight gains revealXeroc and heroHits;
rollAttacks gains weaponAttack, wieldedRingBonus, and defenderArmor;
killed gains killedSpecial. fight.go is complexity-clean. Behavior and
RNG call order unchanged.
The do_zap switch becomes gameData.zapHandlers, indexed by WandKind;
the shared monster-ray preamble is zapRayMonster/zapVictim, teleport
away/to and the three bolt wands share handlers, and a false return
aborts the zap without spending a charge (drain life on a too-weak
hero, as in C). Effect order and RNG call sequence unchanged.
The read_scroll switch becomes gameData.readHandlers, indexed by
ScrollKind; the five identify scrolls share one handler. The magic
mapping cell logic is extracted into revealSpot. Effect order and RNG
call sequence unchanged.
The quaff switch becomes gameData.quaffHandlers, a method-expression
table indexed by PotionKind; each case body moved verbatim into a
quaff* method. Effect order and RNG call sequence unchanged.
getItem→promptPackItem now returns (obj, ok) instead of a nil-signaling
pointer; invName→inventoryName; doPot→applyPotionFuse. C breadcrumbs
kept. Behavior unchanged; suite green.
gochecknoglobals: all 37 package-level tables consolidated into the
gameData struct (game/tables.go), built by newGameData() and carried
on RogueGame as g.data (set in NewGame and Restore). ObjectKind
Glyph()/objectKindForGlyph are now switches; the table-reading subtype
Stringer methods are gone; isMagic is a RogueGame method.
goconst: repeated words named (potionName/scrollName/ringName/goldName
in object.go, wandName/staffName in sticks.go, ripWall in tables.go).
exhaustive, testpackage: disabled in .golangci.yml with sneak's
approval (2026-07-07).
Also reverts misspell's silent corruption of the "ther" scroll-name
syllable (it had become "there", changing generated scroll names vs C).
Remaining red: cyclop/gocognit/nestif until refactor step 7; mnd
awaits a ruling. TODO.md rotated; MEMORY.md lint notes updated.
.golangci.yml is the prompts-repo standard verbatim plus one approved
exception (paralleltest, sneak 2026-07-06). Roughly 1,500 findings
fixed:
- autofix sweep (wsl_v5/nlreturn/intrange/modernize formatting), with
the misspell autofix REVERTED where it rewrote authentic C game text
("missle vanishes" stays, with nolint and a comment)
- error handling: errcheck sites get real handling — saveFile now
closes explicitly and removes corrupt saves, scoreboard writes are
documented best-effort, err113 sentinel errors (ErrSaveOutOfDate,
ErrScreenTooSmall); panics allowed for unrecoverable states per
MEMORY.md policy
- gosec: real fixes (ParseInt for SEED, 0600 scorefile) and justified
per-line nolints for provably-bounded conversions (randomMonsterLetter
helper collapses eight rnd(26)+'A' sites)
- API tidying from linters: pointer receivers on flag types
(recvcheck), msg helpers renamed addmsgf/doaddf/Printwf/MvPrintwf
(goprintffuncname), myExit()/findFloor(monst)/mkGameInput(t) drop
always-constant params (unparam), gameEnd carries no status
- gocritic/staticcheck: if-else chains to switches, the pack.c
inventory filter untangled into matchesFilter, main.go split so
defers run before exit (exitAfterDefer, funlen)
- revive doc comments on all exported flag types/consts/methods
Remaining findings are confined to linters pending sneak's exception
decision (mnd, gochecknoglobals, cyclop, nestif, gocognit, exhaustive,
goconst, testpackage); TODO.md records the state. MEMORY.md added at
repo root as the project's agent working notes.
go.mod, term/ and cmd/ imports, the ARCHITECTURE.md module references,
and the in-game version string. User request; the repo already lives
at this remote.
Object.Arm carried four meanings in C (o_arm/o_charges/o_goldval plus
ring bonuses); it is now four fields: ArmorClass, Charges, GoldValue,
and Bonus. Stats.Arm becomes Stats.ArmorClass. The Charges()/GoldVal()
accessor pair is gone.
Damage dice strings ("1x4/1x2") are parsed once into DiceSpec — at
table definition for the bestiary and weapon tables, at creation for
items — instead of re-parsed with atoi on every swing as fight.c
roll_em did. ParseDice preserves the C parse semantics exactly,
including the junk-tolerant "%%%x0" bestiary placeholder and the
"000x0" flytrap reset (regression-tested in dice_test.go); the
flytrap's growing grip becomes DiceSpec{{VfHit, 1}}.
Save format bumps to 5.4.4-go3 (field renames and retypes would
silently zero under gob's match-by-name decoding).
No behavior change; full suite green.
Module sneak.berlin/go/rogue, package game:
- types.go: all rogue.h constants, flag types, Coord/Stats/Room/ObjInfo
- creature.go/object.go: the THING union split into Creature (Player/
Monster) and Object; slices replace the C linked lists
- level.go: Place map with the C column-major layout and chat/flat/moat/
winat access methods
- tables.go: extern.c + init.c data (bestiary, item tables, name pools)
- rng.go: the exact C LCG (seed*11109+13849), golden-tested against a
compiled C reference for seed compatibility
- init.go: per-game item appearance randomization (init.c)
- daemon.go/daemons.go: scheduler with DaemonID replacing function
pointers (ids match the C save format's mapping)
- game.go: RogueGame holds all former globals; NewGame constructor
