Re: [Csnd-dev] extended guard point

Fractional table number?

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Michael Gogins
Irreducible Productions
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Michael dot Gogins at gmail dot com


On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 3:53 PM Victor Lazzarini <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Work on PR1848 has brought up one unresolved issue that has been present
> since we mainstreamed non-pow-two tables.
>
> There are two problems:
>
> 1) There is currently no way to tell Csound to create a table with an
> extended guard point if we do not use a pow-two size.
>
> 2) Pow-two+1 sizes are pow-two lengths with extended guard point. There is
> no way to actually create a table with that size.
>
> A solution for 1) is to find a way to indicate an extended guard point
> using some form of code (like we do to suppress rescaling)
>
> We can't use negative table numbers because these were used in the past to
> allow np2 tables.
>
> We can't use negative table numbers because these are used for internal
> tables.
>
> Negative creation times may be a solution. While I don't like these adhoc
> codes, there may not be any other means.
>
> Any suggestions, ideas?
>
> Prof. Victor Lazzarini
> Maynooth University
> Ireland