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RFC: Add new field type to support dat64 #134

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@SnosMe

Currently, foreign keys are treated as ulong. While it seems to work on .dat, the correct type of field is (ptr_size + ptr_size).
The first pointer is an actual row index in foreign dat file, the second pointer is always NULL.

I propose to add new field type foreignkey (or genericgeneric).

Specification can be auto updated thanks to the naming conventions

if (string.endsWith(field.name, "Keys") && field.type == "ref|list|ulong") {
  field.type = "ref|list|foreignkey"
}

if (string.endsWith(field.name, "Key") && field.type == "ulong") {
  field.type = "foreignkey"
}

Here's example from BaseItemTypes: .dat at top, .dat64 at bottom.

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