use dictionary entries for M_taipan, etc. 7720 bytes free.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/messages.pl b/messages.pl
index 1120a8b..61ae824 100644
--- a/messages.pl
+++ b/messages.pl
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ open my $t, "<textdecomp.s" or die $!;
 while(<$t>) {
 	next unless /^dict(\d\d):.*;\s*"([^"]*)"/;
 	my $id = $1;
+	my $dictlabel = "dict$1";
 	if($id < 27) {
 		$id = chr($id + 96);
 	} else {
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ while(<$t>) {
 	my $value = 'Z' . $id;
 	my $key = quotemeta $2;
 	$dictionary{$key} = $value;
+	$dictlabels{$value} = $dictlabel;
 }
 close $t;
 
@@ -29,6 +31,8 @@ close $t;
 #}
 #exit 0;
 
+open ASMINC, ">msg.inc" or die $!;
+print ASMINC "; do not edit, contents are generated by messages.pl\n\n";
 print "// do not edit, contents are generated by messages.pl\n\n";
 
 while(<DATA>) {
@@ -53,6 +57,14 @@ while(<DATA>) {
 		}
 	}
 
+# if a string turns out to be exactly a dict entry, no need to include
+# the compressed version in messages.c.
+	if(/^Z.$/) {
+		print "\nextern const char M_$label\[\]; // dictionary used, $dictlabels{$_}\n\n";
+		print ASMINC " _M_$label = $dictlabels{$_}\n .export _M_$label\n\n";
+		next;
+	}
+
 	if(@ARGV) {
 		my $w = $_;
 		$w =~ s/\n/\\n/g;