Re: [Csnd-dev] Csound 7 errors

That’s a bug in Csound 6 not in 7. See my earlier email.

> On 8 Sep 2024, at 21:16, Steven Yi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Definitely looks like a bug to me. I suspect an issue with how = is
> optimized out. If you would file a bug in the issue tracker with this,
> we can be sure to get to this before release.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 3:31 PM Dave Seidel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks, but wouldn't that be considered an incompatibility with existing code? I 've been using this for years, incorrect or not.
>> 
>> Anyway, I fixed it, but was then warned that OPCODE7DIR64 was not set. Shouldn't this be set by the installer. Anyway, I fixed that (but I saw that Csound 7 is installed to C:\Program Files\Csound6_x64\ -- hopefully this will also be fixed in the installer).
>> 
>> Now, the problem is
>> 
>> error: -+rtmidi='portmidi': unknown module *** error opening MIDI in device: -1 (Unknown MIDI error)
>> 
>> I'm using -+rtmidi=portmidi. There is no portmidi.dll in the plugins64 directory.
>> 
>> So I am still unable to proceed.
>> 
>> On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 3:03 PM vlz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> It looks like the old parser let this expression compile when it should not have.
>>> The ftgen does not have a k-rate output,  see
>>> 
>>> https://csound.com/manual/ftgen.html
>>> 
>>> and this is what the error message is saying. If you change to gi_xxxx, it will work.
>>> 
>>> The new parser is more strict, I guess. Steven can say more.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 8 Sep 2024, at 18:52, Dave Seidel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Obviously the line number is unhelpful (just like in 6), but these are the only ftgen statements in the code.
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 1:44 PM Dave Seidel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Now that I \have csound 7, I just tries running the code that works in csound 6, and got the error message:
>>>> 
>>>> error:  Unable to find opcode entry for 'ftgen' with matching argument types:
>>>> 
>>>> Found:
>>>>  k ftgen ccccciiiiiiiiiiic
>>>> 
>>>> Candidates:
>>>>  i ftgen iiiiim
>>>>  i ftgen.S iiiSim
>>>>  i ftgen.iS iiiiSm
>>>>  i ftgen.SS iiiSSm
>>>>  i ftgen iiiii[]
>>>>  i ftgen iiiSi[]
>>>> 
>>>> Line: 24
>>>> from file symmetry.csd (1)
>>>> Parsing failed due to syntax errors
>>>> 
>>>> The ftgen code is:
>>>> 
>>>> ; sine table
>>>> gi_sin = ftgen(0, 0, 2^18, 10, 1)
>>>> 
>>>> ; tanh function
>>>> gi_tanh = ftgen(0, 0, 16385, "tanh", -157, 157, 0)
>>>> 
>>>> gk_centaur          = ftgen(80, 0, 13, -2, 1, 21/20, 9/8, 7/6, 5/4, 4/3, 7/5, 3/2, 14/9, 5/3, 7/4, 15/8, 2)
>>>> gk_meta_slendro     = ftgen(81, 0, 13, -2, 1, 65/64, 9/8, 37/32, 151/128, 5/4, 21/16, 43/32, 3/2, 49/32, 7/4, 57/32, 2)
>>>> gk_pyth             = ftgen(82, 0, 13, -2, 1, 2187/2048, 9/8, 32/27, 81/64, 4/3, 729/512, 3/2, 6561/4096, 27/16, 16/9, 243/128, 2)
>>>> gk_bihexany         = ftgen(83, 0, 13, -2, 1, 35/33, 7/6, 5/4, 14/11, 15/11, 3/2, 35/22, 5/3, 7/4, 20/11, 21/11, 2)