[PD-dev] Double precision externals extensions.

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

On 12/10/19 7:22 PM, Lucas Cordiviola wrote:
> Could we have special extension for double-precision external?
> 
> Something like foo.m_amd64dp ?
> 
> This way we can have external pkgs including both single and double 
> externals.
> 
> Also instruct Pd to *not* try to load the not current precision and 
> avoid crashes.

actually, this is already kind-of-solved.

# avoiding crashes
an external that has been compiled with single-precision will not
register objectclasses in a double-precision Pd - so the doubl-precision
Pd will not know about those new objects and not crash while using them.
same goes for the other way round.

# pkgs including both single- and double-precision externals
a single external binary (say: "foo.dll") can hold both single-precision
and double-precision variants of the [foo] object.

gmasdr
IOhannes


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