[PD] gate object changing type - ?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 10, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Damian Stewart wrote:
>>> if i drag a [gate] object around the gui window, or save a patch  
>>> containing a [gate], the [gate] object is saved as a different  
>>> type depending on what the last message to its left inlet was.  
>>> (0==text, 1==object, 2==msg, 3==numberbox, ...)
>>
>> That looks like a problem of using a very old m_pd.h,
> [...]
>> However, I don't see any further evidence of this
>
> I just thought: could it be a difference in the memory alignment  
> options of some externals vs pd itself? something that could change  
> the sizeof(t_text) without having a different m_pd.h. However it  
> still wouldn't explain the problem with dragging around, unless  
> different parts of pd have different alignment settings (!).

Krzysztof thought it might be related to -mms-bitfields option in  
MinGW.  I think the bugs have occured using with and without that  
field.  Currently, cyclone and family are set to compile without -mms- 
bitfields.

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