Hello Bhavani Can you tell me what this RFE Compile for 128 bit patch really is good for? Please have a look at the answer of xmp upstream.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: xmp 2.7.0 Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:34:14 -0300 From: Claudio Matsuoka <cmatsu...@gmail.com> To: Gürkan Sengün <gur...@phys.ethz.ch> References: <4a5c3e79.3070...@phys.ethz.ch> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Gürkan Sengün<gur...@phys.ethz.ch> wrote:
I am the maintainer of xmp on Debian, I also use it on Mac OS X (iMac G4 PowerPC). Did you see these bug reports at Debian, and could you fix them in a later tarball release?
Hi Gürkan, I wasn't aware of these reports, thanks for the note. A few notes on the reports: #483389 xmp should not expect valid input / signedness problems: will apply the proposed patches for 2.7.1. It's generally very hard to cover all possibilities arising from corrupted files, so further tests will be added when needed. #536740 xmp: RFE Compile for 128 bit: this is really not a matter of bits -- strictly in terms of mixer resolution it's always performed in 32 bits, and changing the maximum number of active voices from 64 to 128 would increase final mixer resolution from 22 to 23 bits (16 + log2(voices)). I've never seen a module needing more than 64 virtual channels, and 128 seems to be quite exaggerated. I'll investigate the need to increase the number of voices for the 2.8 series. With the current mixer values, if a module (through NNA or similar) needs more than 64 channels, it will allocate it according to IT rules. If the limit is increased, there can be some output distortion. #442147 xmp: manpage has two explanations for -l. Oops. Will fix to make everything consistent in 2.7.1. #8510 XMP should reload samples after exit. This is a bit controversial. Any other program does this? Shouldn't the MIDI player program reload samples before playing to ensure the card is in correct state before playing? I'm unconvinced in this case, unless this behavior is common policy I tend to suggest closing it as wontfix or similar. #191109 xmp: show time informations on verbose command line: It can be done, I'll check what cplay needs.
Will there ever be an xxmp?
I don't see it coming back because the player plugins fill this gap for users needing a GUI.
Do you have a powerpc machine to test hear songs there? I got a few songs which sound wrong on my mac (even with 2.7.0), and for some songs (from keygenmusic webpage) xmp just keeps allocating memory until the machine goes out of memory, would it help to have copies of those songs, or a shell account on my machine?
Ugh. I'll see if I find a big-endian machine around for tests, but in the meantime if you send me some faulty modules I can check the code. Sometimes it's easy to find even without access to the host where the problems happen, so Iet's try it first and if I didn't find anything I'll ask for the account. Best regards, Claudio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
