Well that is gcc 2.96 & gcc 3.0.4 I have tried. What are you using and what sort of processor? Surely if gcc can cope with floating point the problem is low level access and differences. Though as there are both big endian and little endian if a switch does not work what els?
----- Original Message ----- From: "P Witte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 12:24 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] UQLX & Mandrake 8.2 > > John Sadler writes: > > > > > I have got UQLX to make, install and run with Mandrake 8.2 as well. > > > > (Mandrake 8.1 would not run.) > > > > The colur displays are correct in Mode 4. However the numerical output > > is > > > > not intelligible. > > > > > > is this gcc-2.96? Use kgcc or 2.95 or 3.x > > > > > > Richard > > > > Recompiled using gcc3.0.4 with exactly the same result. > > The QDOS numbers & floating point are not displayed properly. > > Even the date is unintelligable and the line numbers and channel numbers > in > > the listing of the boot program are unintelligable. > > Defintely got nothing to do with compiler and probaly big endian for > numbers > > The symptoms you describe appear to be the same as I experienced some time > ago. In the end it turned out to be the compiler; something about the Linux > kernel headers some use. I switched to a different gcc and since then Ive > compiled uQLx a number of times without a hitch. > > Per >
