Re: Success!

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:

>On Tuesday 18 November 2003 12:30, you wrote:
>  
>
>>If it seems to be working now, I will leave it as is and upload
>>it to SourceForge.  If anything seems strange, let me know.
>>    
>>
>
>Quick status update:
>
>I started over again on the alpha with the current cvs source
>patched with your  with_image_111603.diff
>It failed.
>I then started introducing changes one by one from my
>working version.  The key lines were ones you had identified
>earlier:
>#if (0)  /* Doesn't work on alpha */
>#define SET_COLOR_CODE_CHAR      '\x005'
>#define FILLED_POLYGON_CODE_CHAR '\x005'
>#define IMAGE_CODE_CHAR          '\x001'
>#else
>#define SET_COLOR_CODE_CHAR      '5'
>#define FILLED_POLYGON_CODE_CHAR '5'
>#define IMAGE_CODE_CHAR          '1'
>#endif
>

Good, good.  I wonder if the DEC cc compiler thinks that '\x001'
means 'x', when it really is supposed to mean 1.

>With this change on top of the 111603 patch, the alpha
>version can communicate with itself just fine.  How I managed
>to screw this up while testing from home, I do not know.
>

This could be a case of the compilation not appropriately
checking dependence.  x11.trm is dependent upon gplt_x11.h
but since x11.trm is compiled through term.c, it may not
recompile when gplt_x11.h is changed.  I'm not positive on
that.

>It's water under the bridge at this point, I suppose.
>
>However, the 32-bit and 64-bit streams are still not
>interchangeable. In fact they are not even the same length.
>

I will have a look at how these differ.

Thanks,

Dan