It's always a good sign when the comments say "this will definitely
crash" and "I don't know if this is for a good reason".
Fixes https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/12762.
These GetPointer calls could cause crashes, in part because the
callers didn't do null checks and in part because GetPointer
inherently is unsafe to use for accesses larger than 1 byte.
The actual values don't matter since we overwrite all of the relevant fields, but other bits were not initialized (e.g. the top 12 bits of X10Y10), so the warning was semi-valid.
This piece of code is rather hard to understand, but my best guess
at what it's trying to do is that it tries to create opportunities
to skip writing CRs back to ppcState if we know that there are no
CR instructions (or branch instructions, etc) between an instruction
that writes to a CR register and the next blr. This is technically
inaccurate emulation, but as long as games don't do anything too
weird with their ABIs, I suppose it doesn't break anything.
So why do I want to get rid of it? Well, other than breaking some
hypothetical weird game, I imagine it could trip up people trying
to debug a game who are looking at the CR contents. And the code
is just plain confusing. (blr clearly doesn't write to CRs!)
Previously, EFB copies would be in the middle of other objects, as objects were only split on primitive data. A distinct object for each EFB copy makes them easier to spot, but does also mean there are more objects that do nothing when disabled (as disabling an object only skips primitive data, and there is no primitive data for EFB copies).
This also adds the commands after the last primitive data but before the next frame as a unique object; this is mainly just the XFB copy. It's nice to have these visible, though disabling the object does nothing since only primitive data is disabled and there is no primitive data in this case.
It became irrelevant in 952dfcd610, when the define was removed; now, the code the comment is referring to is in JitRegister.cpp, and oprofile is controlled by cmake.
My change in 867cd99 caused farcode to fill up much more than before.
Most games still ran fine, but certain games would have multiple
cache clears per minute, on top of being overall slow.
Maybe there's something prettier we can do about this than just
allocating more RAM, but we have the resource budget for making
Dolphin use more RAM, so I consider increasing the size of the
cache to be a good solution at least for the time being.
At least for Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, 48 MB isn't
enough to stop the cache clears, but 64 MB is. (I only played the
game for a few minutes when testing, though.)
This fixes the bad rendering on the first frame when using the software renderer: the software renderer's Z buffer started out at 0, but most games clear it to 0xffffff instead; this means that things don't render correctly except for in the regions where the screen was cleared by an EFB copy earlier in the frame.
The system menu does clear the RTC flags, but we currently aren't updating the cache file, and since we clear them the system menu doesn't know to update the cache either. This means that launching a game via the system menu, and then launching a game directly and exiting via HOME will result in the system menu using an outdated cache and displaying the old game. This causes it to fail to launch the game on the disc channel (since it doesn't match the cache), resulting in it resetting (though it will ignore the cache after resetting). Not clearing the cache avoids this issue.
