[PD] pd on MacPro intel Xeon 64 bit

[Martin Peach]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> Just curious, why wouldn't there ever be a 64-bit version of GEM?  
> I've been thinking that a 64-bit build of Pd-extended would be nice to 
> have, especially because using 64-bit floats as Pd's native format 
> would make it much more flexible.  You could represent UNIX timestamps 
> properly, for example.
Max/msp already uses doubles for its 'float' type, even on 32-bit 
versions. As Chris said, in a 64-bit build the floats stay 32 bit. You 
would have to declare them all as double instead.
In pd the t_float would probably have to be changed to a 
pointer-to-double since the double is too big to fit in an atom 
(assuming that atoms must all be the same size).
Perhaps a script could be written to change all the "float" to "double*" 
and prefix all the float assignments with "*".
Also all the places where gcc complains about "type-punning", where a 
string of four bytes is interpreted as a float, would need to be looked 
at. And everywhere (especially in externals) float variables have been 
used instead of t_floats. And anywhere the guts of the float are 
manipulated directly (in osc~ this is done using a double).
Martin