On Sunday 09 March 2003 08:00 pm, Florian Kolbe wrote:
Come to think of it - is the asm stuff 16 Bit only? Can it be 'ported' to 32 Bit? Or are we going 'float-only' in the future?
The question is: can we release ourselves from the asm code completely?
I've already ported the assembly code that calculates the Mandelbrot set to nasm, which is 32 bit. Yes, that is an added complication. I have a port of the formula parser assembly code which doesn't crash, but doesn't produce any output either. Because of the Xfractint code base, we can pick and choose the assembly code we port. I'll take a look at the errors I got when I tried compiling xfractint with djgpp. The major problem is the video interface since the video assembly code is useless. Jonathan