Reimplement enhancements to kernel Dynamic Area support from
Ursula. Quite a hairy code merge really, so let's hope it is worth it to someone. What you get (back after 2 or 3 years): - much more efficient for largish numbers of DAs (relevance to current build = approx 0) - fancy reason codes to support fast update of Switcher bar display (relevance = 0) - support for clamped maximum area sizes, to avoid address space exhaustion with big memory (relevance = 0) - better implementation of shrinkable DAs, performance wise (if lots of DAs, relevance = approx 0) - support for 'Sparse' DAs. Holey dynamic areas, Batman! (relevance, go on someone use the darned things) Moderately development tested on HAL/32bit ARM9 desktop. Note the Switcher should be compiled to use the new reason codes 6&7, for fabled desktop builds. Also, during this work, so I could see the wood for the trees, redid some source code clean up, removing pre-Medusa stuff (like I did about 3 years ago on Ursula, sigh). That's why loads of source files have changed. The new DA stuff is confined pretty much to hdr.KernelWS and s.ChangeDyn. Ta. Version 5.35, 4.79.2.38. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_38'
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