[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#12271) RFC: allowing more players

["Benoit Hudson" <bh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12271 >

I cringe at the 30-player / 2-barbarian limit.  Our
imagination should be the limit, not our bits -- and currently our 
imagination is at 87 nations!

This said, it would be a lot of work, because every time any code depends
on more than one player, it's touching a data structure with the fixed 32
players.  Also, there are lots of bitvectors being stuffed into an int.

At some point I looked into this, and wrote a bitvector library for
variable-length bitvectors, but then the enormity of the task
dawned on me, as did the requirement that I actually earn my keep.
The bitvector library is attached.

Am I the only one who wants lots-of-player games?  Is anyone interested
in helping development?

bv_test.c
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bitvector.c
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bitvector.h
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bv_inline.h
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