Actors with duplicate names (MH-Ziki)

[Barbie]

And if you call an iterator from another I cannot be sure what will happen when map has 3000+ actors.

If a map is dupe-free, my algorithm has the complexity of n² and therfore the error condition (more than 10,000,000 loops) is reached at TRUNC(SQRT(10^7))+1=3163. "MH-Andromeda-Ancient-Test1V" is such a candidate.

Recently I was able to read the export table from a map with duplicates with my Win32 executable, and on a first quick view that table was dupe free, too (beside the name table). I wonder where these duplicate Actors are hiding...

[sektor2111]

So my way is much healthy and simple. Usually I do in game checks using default MH (no replacements) else items replaced won't return any duplicate as long as iterator hack is slower to prevent a crash.

[Barbie]

Recently I was able to read the export table from a map with duplicates with my Win32 executable and on a first quick view that table was dupe free

I'm still on it...
Recently I used the »ut_packages_pas22« library to explore UT packages: that library also reads the tables only, and does not parse the data section. (Because UTPT is using this library also, I wasn't able to find duplicates with it neither.) Because the name and export tables of the package are dupe free, I'm now convinced that the duplicate Actors are within the data section. UCC.EXE respective the editor seem to parse this data section instead of relying on the export table.
The wiki describes the structure of a package file as follows:

1. Header
2. Name-Table
3. Import-Table
4. Data section
5. Export-Table

Does anyone know how to parse the data section? I guess its a stream, and I don't need the details for each object; only its start and end and the offset of the name table index is of interest.