Thanks Hal. No problem.
As for the second [item], I'll take a look and see if I can repro it on my current code base.
If you ever want me to run any tests using the version of Fractint for Windows I have installed (it shows 20.99.8 while running), please let me know. It is one of the last [the last?] betas you posted a link to. As an old FORTRAN programmer, where *all* built-in data types in the language have their lengths in bits specified, I have never understood why C and C++ wanted to encourage the size of an int to be variable with the processor the application ran on. This has caused untold hours of lost time and productivity and calculation errors when processors and compilers went from 8 bits to 16 bits, then 16 to 32 and is still doing this when porting apps from 32 to 64 bits -- the very problems you are dealing with in the conversion of 16 bit DOS Fractint to 32 bit Windows Fractint. I really am tempted to look for the digit "2" in the code of the parser, but I really don't have the time to do it right now. - Hal Lane ######################### # hallane@earthlink.net <mailto:hallane@earthlink.net> # #########################
-----Original Message----- From: fractdev-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:fractdev-bounces@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 4:22 PM To: Fractint developer's list Subject: Re: [Fractdev] I've run across what appears to be 2 problems withthe 20.99.8 Fractint for Windows
Thanks Hal. I haven't tracked down what is going on with the formula parser, but I suspect its buried somewhere deep in the parser that it assumes "sizeof(int) == 2" and uses a hardcoded 2 instead of sizeof(int).
As for the second, I'll take a look and see if I can repro it on my current code base. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html>
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