[linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] music engine

[David Olofson]

On Friday 07 April 2006 19:44, torbenh at gmx.de wrote:
[...]
> > Basically, just don't assume that a pointer is 32 bits, and you're 
> 
> but those bytecode interpreters of pd and such just assume, that int
> and pointer are the same size...

Yeah, it's tempting to do it that way... I'm not doing any of that in 
EEL though, and that's using a byte code VM too.

It definitely helps to have portability in mind all the way from the 
design stage, especially with that kind of code. (Inherently messy, 
in a way...)


> well... perhaps it would work ok, if the integer was changed to
> int64 also... 
> 
> dont ask me. i did not look at the code...

Are they using computed gotos or similar, or is this a struct/union 
problem?

Either way, I can't see why it couldn't be fixed, but I can see a few 
design styles that would require some 32/64 #ifdefs. Could be a bit 
hairy to track all spots down if the pointer size is implicitly built 
into the code. (Something I try to avoid in general. You never know 
when, why or what you might want to change down the road.)


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