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

I figured it out:

1) Starting with 6.18.1 on Mac I released universal binaries
2) The check for B64BIT was only picking up the x86_64 nor arm64

The result was that for  i1 ftgen 1, 0, 2^28, 2, 0, 2^28, 0

1) on arm64 (Csound 6.18.1)

/usr/local/bin/csound test.csd -n

INIT ERROR in instr 0 (opcode ftgen) line 8: ftgen error
 from file test.csd (1),i1 ftgen 1 0 268435456 2 0 268435456 0

2) on x86_64 (Csound 6.18.1)

arch -x86_64 /usr/local/bin/csound test.csd -n

ftable 1: 268435456 points, scalemax 1.000

So for 6.18.1, only the x86_64 allows up to 2^28-length tables.

With Steven’s fix, Csound 7 is building with B64BIT on arm64. But I think this changes does not need to be limited to 64bit platforms.
We probably can roll it out to all platforms.


> On 1 Oct 2024, at 23:12, vlz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think the check was broken, Steven seems to have fixed it.
>
>> On 1 Oct 2024, at 23:06, vlz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Then for some reason in the build B64BIT is not defined. If that’s defined you can do
>>
>> i1 ftgen 1, 0, 2^28, 2, 0, 2^28, 0
>>
>> We need to check that.
>>
>>> On 1 Oct 2024, at 22:47, Giovanni Bedetti <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I tried to create a table (using the API, compileOrc and CopyTableIn) after reading samples from a stereo file (so the table will hold both channels, interleaved): this works: audioClip samples 4549938x2 = 9099876, length (seconds): 103.1732, sr: 44100
>>> this doesn't: audioClip samples 10612538x2 = 21225076, length (seconds): 240.6471, sr: 44100
>>> with this log:
>>> illegal table length
>>> INIT ERROR in instr 0 (opcode ftgen) line 11: ftgen error gisampletable100 ftgen 100 0 -21225076 -7 0 0
>>>
>>> I'm still using Csound6 (6.18) on CsoundUnity on macOS
>>>
>>> Il giorno mar 1 ott 2024 alle ore 21:58 Victor Lazzarini <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>>> 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
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>>>> On 1 Oct 2024, at 20:20, Steven Yi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I was going off what's documented in the manual (https://csound.com/docs/manual/f.html)
>>>>
>>>> "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."
>>>>
>>>> I think Giovanni ran into issues with longer sized tables but I don't recall how long.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Prof. Victor Lazzarini
>>>> Maynooth University
>>>> Ireland
>>>>
>>>>> On 1 Oct 2024, at 13:36, Steven Yi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  *Warning*
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>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> steven


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Prof. Victor Lazzarini
Maynooth University
Ireland