Re: Pd-0.56-2 on IRIX

IOhannes m zmoelnig via Pd-list <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:16:56 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.multimedia.puredata.general
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On 1/13/26 16:35, IOhannes m zmoelnig via Pd-list wrote:
> 
> there seems to be some problem with printing numbers.
> e.g. [noise~]->[env~]->[print] shows weird numbers, like "0+.3345" or 
> "/4.909"

mistral.ai says that this is a "well known bug" on IRIX, and gives a 
couple of suggestions on how to fix it (none of which work of course; 
the time has yet to come when an LLM will give me a code suggestions 
that actually works).

i can reproduce the problem with this trivial program:
```C
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    int i;
    for(i=30; i<=40; i++) {
       double f=(double)i;
       printf("%d\t%f\t%.1f\n", i, f, f);
    }
    return 1;
}
```

i thought that the problem might be related to using gcc, but apparently 
the issue persists when compiling with 'CC' (provided by MIPSpro; for 
unknown reasons this compiler appears to work, unlike the 'cc' (lower 
case) variant).

I'm currently trying to fix the MIPSpro installation, but i just noticed 
that even the software manager (swmgr) shows the same broken numbers, so 
I guess the problem lies deeper.

anyhow, on the plus side: i managed to fix the "expr" compilation; so 
now Pd-0.56-2 should be "feature complete", barring the audio/MIDI 
system which is still untested.

while you are trying to fix the networking issue, you could test whether 
audio is working with a simple [osc~ 440]->[dac~] patch running without 
a GUI...

gfasmnrd
IOhannes

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