Originally built by Gottfried: original release post
While working on Phoenix I had to decompile compiled scripts from an older demo so it could be passed on to people doing alpha version research. To do this, I changed the source code of DecDat to work on the old .DAT file format.
When I was at it I fixed the string substitution feature and int to instance substitution.
The decompiled code now shows the string literals instead of the const string of the string literal.
Before
description = ˙10722;Now
description = "ENDE";Due to the way how Daedalus treats instances (they are basically symbol table indicies) the integers get decompiled back and the instance information is lost.
As a quick fix I introduced instance substitution, every integer higher than 60 is checked whether it is also an instance and then the substitution occurs. This is not a bullet proof solution, so the original integer is placed as a comment right after the substituted instance identifier.
Before
if(npc_knowsinfo(hero, 12408)) {
return true;
};After
if(npc_knowsinfo(hero, info_xardasdemon_intro /*12408*/)) {
return true;
};