Using Library 6/11 and either compiler 6.21 or 6.30, verbs greater than
256 have their definitions replaced by something wacky like the effects
of "superbrief". This happens even though $MAX_VERBS is set to 500. The compiler uses one byte in the dictionary to store the verb number
(actually 255-verbnum). Glulx has room for two bytes, but neither the
compiler nor the library uses the high byte.
At a minimum we should fix the compiler to reject a MAX_VERBS setting higher than 255.
About Patches
Issue C63010 [previous patch]
Verbs limited to 256
Submitted by: Brian Rapp
Appeared in: Compilers long ago
Fixed in: -
Problem
Solution (by Andrew Plotkin)
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