Re: [Csnd-dev] [EXTERNAL] [Csnd-dev] sysdep.h and MAXLEN for ftables

That’s if B64BIT is not defined. Actually I don’t think we need to check for this.
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Prof. Victor Lazzarini
Maynooth University
Ireland

> On 1 Oct 2024, at 20:20, Steven Yi <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I was going off what's documented in the manual (https://csound.com/docs/manual/f.html)
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> "p3 -- Size of function table (i.e. number of points) Must be a power of 2, or a power-of-2 plus 1 if this number is positive. Maximum table size is 16777216 (224) points."
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> I think Giovanni ran into issues with longer sized tables but I don't recall how long. 
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> On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 3:00 PM Victor Lazzarini <[email protected]> wrote:
> MAXLEN is 0x10000000 for most modern archs, that's 2^28 is it not? That translates into 
> about 101 minutes of audio at 44100.
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> It does not strike me as too short. I think we could get away with 2^32 without having to do a major overhaul, but I need to check if my idea works correctly. That would allows 1603 minutes or 27 hours of audio. 
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> Prof. Victor Lazzarini 
> Maynooth University
> Ireland
> 
>> On 1 Oct 2024, at 13:36, Steven Yi <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> I was chatting with Giovanni Bedetti on Discord about max table length. It seems awfully small at 2^24 (~16MB). Any reason not to bump that up to something larger? 
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>> Also, while looking at that, I noticed B64BIT detection in sysdep.h. I saw that it was missing aarch64 amongst other things, so I've submitted a PR to update this. 
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>> steven