[PD-dev] a true Pd-double autobuild finally available for testing

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Thu Nov 17 18:44:10 CET 2011


Woo hoo!  32-bit ints in Pd!  Well done, thanks for your hard work on this :).

.hc

On Nov 17, 2011, at 8:53 AM, katja wrote:

> Finally there is a first true Pd-double nightly build available for
> testing, almost one month after the first announcement. It is an OSX
> i386 build. Other builds will hopefully follow soon.
> 
> http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/2011-11-17/
> 
> Beware! This pre-pre-alpha Pd-double-extended is probably the buggiest
> Pd you've ever seen. The largest part of it still has to be tested and
> precision-fixed. Precision-issues can in some cases produce ridiculous
> output values, in the range of billions or trillions. Use an analog
> volume control when testing Pd-double-extended, and set it _low_ to
> start with.
> 
> parts which are so far precision-fixed and tested on OSX and Linux:
> 
> most of pd-double core
> externals/extra (except [pd~])
> externals/creb
> externals/smlib
> externals/vbap
> 
> precision-fix priorities:
> 
> - making pd-double core work for Windows
> - find and fix pointer typecast cases resulting in dangerously high
> output values
> - fix cw_binaural to compile and work in double precision so it can be
> included in the LIB_TARGETS again
> 
> long term:
> 
> - make unit tests for all classes in all libs
> - fix all precision issues
> - develop a method to prevent cross-precision lib-loads
> 
> 
> 
> Katja
> 
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