Re: [AL] binutils 2.10

[Neil C. O. <ma...@cy...>]

Ooh, this is obviously a touchy subject.  What I mean is that most
programmers working with assembly in the realm of Allegro and game
programming would be writing for Intel (i.e. x86) CPUs ... sure
refridgerators and cars (and a MULTITUDE of other things) have CPUs,
but I my game(s) certainly won't run on them :).  And as far as
Alpha's and Sparcs and all that other "stuff", I'm sure they have
stuff too.  I remember Alpha's (ha ha ha ha :), heard of MIPs and
SPARCs, etc.  But you don't quite see as much assembler for them (at
least I haven't) -- again, in the realm of game programming.  Isn't
that what this list is basically about -- game programming?  I could
be wrong ... ;)

-nco

> > Doesn't Intel make up MOST CPUs?

> You mean number of units of the *same* CPU? If that's what you mean
yes. What I
> mean is *different* CPUs.
>
> SET

> And there is a lot of small processors in your radio, TV, fridge,
network
> card, etc... which are not manufactured by Intel, and there is a LOT
of
> them.
>
> Stepan Roh

> ???
> They do a large part, and one of the most sold, but there are
> a whole load of others, less known to you maybe because they're
> not used in PCs, but to name only sone: SPARC, Alpha, 680x0,
> MIPS, PA-RISC, etc...
>
> --
> Lyrian




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On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:26:48AM +1000, Peter Wang wrote:
> Most likely your X server is being stupid and returning 24 for
> colour depth instead of 32.  A patch was posted some time ago,
> which should be in 3.9.33.

Eric Botcazou sent this patch, which worked wonders on my
machine, and is already applied to the CVS archive.  I got a bit
behind schedule regarding the new WIP, I shouldn't have imposed
a deadline on myself. :)  I'm not sure whether I'll be through
with it this weekend either, and I'm spending next week in
Scotland, but in any case, all the merging I've done so far is
now in CVS so someone else could carry on from here.

If any users want to get at this code now, they're welcome to
it, but it has stronger caveats that real WIP releases. :)  Send
me a private email for details (don't send to the list, or I'll
ignore it).  You can access it by CVS, by unpacking a .tar.gz
snapshot of the CVS tree, or by applying a patch as usual.  As I
said, this isn't a release, so you may need special tools
(autoconf for Unix; various Unix tools for DOS/Windows).

I'm actually tempted to go ahead and release the new WIP this
weekend, even if I haven't applied all outstanding patches, but
I'll try to get in contact with Shawn before doing this.

George

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