Re: [Plplot-devel] [BUG] problem with dynamic drivers and multiple precision libs

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > How about just using the library suffix (e.g., psd.drv for the
 > double-precision version and ps.drv for the single precision version)
 > instead on all dynamically loadable *.drv files?  Such a division of library
 > names seems to work well for our libraries so it shouldn't be that difficult
 > to extend it to the *.drv files.  I believe such a solution should be a lot
 > simpler to maintain than rules about library function arguments.

My further investigation of this problem shows this to be in fact the only way
to solve it.  The ultimate sticky point is the offset into the PLStream
structure by the pls pointer -- if the PLFLT defn's don't match up, it's
wrong.  I don't see any way to solve this except dual precision drivers.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...