[Ldlite-development] Fwd: RE: more ldlite compatibility notes.

[Paul G. <pg...@ya...>]

Forwarding to the ldlite-development list
so an archived copy can be kept around.
-gyug


--- Paul Gyugyi <pg...@ya...> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 16:18:22 -0800 (PST)
> From: Paul Gyugyi <pg...@ya...>
> Reply-to: pa...@gy...
> Subject: RE: more ldlite compatibility notes.
> To: Don Heyse <don...@us...>
> CC: ar...@gy...
> 
> Hi Don!
> 
> >  I noticed that I
> > could edit the web pages for ldlite on the
> > sourceforge and replaced
> > the old 2.2 release notes with the "enhanced"
> > version of the 2.3
> > release notes.  I backed up the original 2.2 pages
> > just in case you
> > don't like it.  I also noticed that
> > http://www.gyugyi.com/l3g0/ldlite/
> > is still at version 2.0 but I can't do anything
> > about it...
> 
> Hmmm, I'll have to give you write permission at
> www.gyugyi.com... :)
> Thanks for updating the pages.  The startup I slaved
> away at for two years ran out of money (actually
> customers) and went into hibernation.  On the plus
> side, I ended up at nVidia and get to sit in on
> graphics presentations and hear about the new
> GForce chips. (I'm actually working on networking
> architecture, not graphics).
> 
> > Alternatively I could just add a global
> > rendering_opts integer
> > and use all the same bit flags as
> > ldraw_commandline_opts.F.  How do
> > you feel about it?
> 
> Sounds to me like the best solution would be
> to add a global in the same format as
> ldraw_commandline_opts.F and use that.  
> The zWire variables were just getting too 
> hard to keep track of.
> 
> > I'd also like to change a malloc in qbuf.c to use
> > sizeof(long) instead
> > of 4 since that was the only fix required to get
> > ldglite to run on the
> > 64bit alpha platform. 
> 
> You have a 64 bit machine? That's unfair! :)
> But, if I'm not mistaken, a long should still
> be 4 bytes, even if an int is 8 bytes, right?
> 
> -gyug
> 
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