[PD] bugs and question

[Thomas Grill]

... or you could divide a long integer into two short (16-Bit) ones which
are exactly representable by two floats....
also a bad hack.

Thomas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Krzysztof Czaja" <czaja at chopin.edu.pl>
To: "Mathieu Bouchard" <matju at sympatico.ca>
Cc: "pd-list" <pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [PD] bugs and question


> hi,
>
> using an atom type unknown to the outside world is possible, but
> without any way of plugging a specialized method handling this
> type.  One would need to use a generic typedmess() interface --
> declare A_GIMME method on a receiving side, and pass it ordinary
> messages with a symbol selector prefix.
>
> I am not sure, if relying on every foreign class ignoring unknown
> atom type is a good idea.  If not, one could filter foreign
> receivers, i.e. directly use outlet traversal routines, bypassing
> the standard outlet_anything() mechanism.
>
> Of course, there are also simple but dirty hacks for passing
> C-pointers around, like converting their hex representation into
> either symbols (this could result in a Pd's symbol table lookup
> slowdown), or lists of ascii codes (floats).  The other hack could
> be passing indices to a ``dispatch table'', or, more generally,
> establishing a well-known base address, and passing the offsets
> (small floats).
>
> Krzysztof
>
> Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> ...
>  > How do I add a new type of Atom? If not, what may I use to pass void*
>  > around? You see, I used to use integers to pass around pointers,
because
>  > my methods always knew beforehand what were function pointers and what
>  > were int pointers and what were just integers. However there is no
integer
>  > type in PureData. What should I do?
>
>
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