Re: Another hyperspace bug found --> random and Neural Net

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Bill Yerazunis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   From: Marcus Kool <marcus.kool-x/J+dzphU+SB39Oa/[email protected]>
>
>   Moral of the story: do not mix types, they can cause a lot of headaches.
>
> Therein lies the problem- for portability reasons (yes, I've been
> convinced by Ger and others) I'm trying to at least do _new_
> development using fixed-width types like uint32_t, rather than the
> ambiguous and platform-dependent types like "unsigned long".
>
> But - when I do that, I find that *none* of the calls pass unscathed
> through GCC.  Finding _real_ issues when flooded with meaningless,
> ignorable error messages is just bad practice.


Have patience. I didn't get there in a single day either. Changing
habits is the hardest and I congratulate you on doing so.

You may wish to post your sources (the WGET copy maybe?) and the
warnings and let us/me have a look at it.

I just had a look at your new FSCM and it's heading in the right
direction!  It only needs a bit of 'sed s/long/int/g' and GerH and
BillY builds are a whole lot closer to a snug fit again. :-))

For education, you may wish to download the GerH code and have a look
at what I did (just read a bit of code). One important extra move I
did: anything which is a hash is a special type:
  typedef uint32_t crmhash_t;
so that I can use crmhash_t everywhere where a hash is processed or
produced. This has the advantage that I get warned when I mix hashes
with other stuff. When I wish to migrate to 64-bit hashes application
wide, it's one typedef that is to be changed and strnhash() and I am
done. That how structure is done at the lowest level.

Anyway, sounds like you, Bill, are pulling hairs you should not. Post
the code and the warnings and I'll have a look pronto.


-- 
Met vriendelijke groeten / Best regards,

Ger Hobbelt

--------------------------------------------------
web: http://www.hobbelt.com/
 http://www.hebbut.net/
mail: [email protected]
mobile: +31-6-11 120 978
--------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace.
It's the best place to buy or sell services for
just about anything Open Source.
http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php