Let material probing to access per-thread table

[stockfish] / src / material.h

diff --git a/src/material.h b/src/material.h
index 581e7585722691a3c808775a52c970fa4217d63d..7e5dcadcc6192bd89fc96cad110bfe641a43f1f2 100644 (file)
--- a/src/material.h
+++ b/src/material.h
@@ -30,11 +30,11 @@ namespace Material {
 /// Material::Entry contains various information about a material configuration.
 /// It contains a material imbalance evaluation, a function pointer to a special
 /// endgame evaluation function (which in most cases is NULL, meaning that the
-/// standard evaluation function will be used), and "scale factors".
+/// standard evaluation function will be used), and scale factors.
 ///
-/// The scale factors are used to scale the evaluation score up or down.
-/// For instance, in KRB vs KR endgames, the score is scaled down by a factor
-/// of 4, which will result in scores of absolute value less than one pawn.
+/// The scale factors are used to scale the evaluation score up or down. For
+/// instance, in KRB vs KR endgames, the score is scaled down by a factor of 4,
+/// which will result in scores of absolute value less than one pawn.
 
 struct Entry {
 
@@ -43,12 +43,11 @@ struct Entry {
   bool specialized_eval_exists() const { return evaluationFunction != NULL; }
   Value evaluate(const Position& pos) const { return (*evaluationFunction)(pos); }
 
-  // scale_factor takes a position and a color as input, and returns a scale factor
-  // for the given color. We have to provide the position in addition to the color,
-  // because the scale factor need not be a constant: It can also be a function
-  // which should be applied to the position. For instance, in KBP vs K endgames,
-  // a scaling function for draws with rook pawns and wrong-colored bishops.
-
+  // scale_factor takes a position and a color as input and returns a scale factor
+  // for the given color. We have to provide the position in addition to the color
+  // because the scale factor may also be a function which should be applied to
+  // the position. For instance, in KBP vs K endgames, the scaling function looks
+  // for rook pawns and wrong-colored bishops.
   ScaleFactor scale_factor(const Position& pos, Color c) const {
 
     return !scalingFunction[c] || (*scalingFunction[c])(pos) == SCALE_FACTOR_NONE
@@ -59,13 +58,14 @@ struct Entry {
   int16_t value;
   uint8_t factor[COLOR_NB];
   EndgameBase<Value>* evaluationFunction;
-  EndgameBase<ScaleFactor>* scalingFunction[COLOR_NB];
+  EndgameBase<ScaleFactor>* scalingFunction[COLOR_NB]; // Could be one for each
+                                                       // side (e.g. KPKP, KBPsKs)
   Phase gamePhase;
 };
 
 typedef HashTable<Entry, 8192> Table;
 
-Entry* probe(const Position& pos, Table& entries, Endgames& endgames);
+Entry* probe(const Position& pos);
 
 } // namespace Material