Re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-17 Thread Jonathan Polley
On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 07:45 PM, Julian Foad wrote: > Jonathan Polley wrote: >> >> My C training goes back to circa 1985, at which time all floats were >> passed as doubles. > > Yes, they were. > >> In fact, the modern C/C++ compilers to which I have >> access still do this (I don't u

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-17 Thread Julian Foad
Jonathan Polley wrote: > > My C training goes back to circa 1985, at which time all floats were > passed as doubles. Yes, they were. > In fact, the modern C/C++ compilers to which I have > access still do this (I don't use gcc, except to rebuild FlightGear). Oh? Which compilers? > All > fl

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-16 Thread Norman Vine
Jonathan Polley writes: > >I must be older than anyone else here, but my collegiate C >training Nah, If you had 'C' courses in college you are just a 'pup' :-) Norman ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-16 Thread Jonathan Polley
On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 11:54 PM, Julian Foad wrote: > Jonathan Polley wrote: >> > ... >> >> Aside from removing unreferenced variables, the bulk of the changes were >> in the area of the use of floating-point. Since C does all passing of >> floats as doubles, and does all math in double

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-16 Thread Julian Foad
Jonathan Polley wrote: > ... > > Aside from removing unreferenced variables, the bulk of the changes were > in the area of the use of floating-point. Since C does all passing of > floats as doubles, and does all math in double, could we have a mandate > that all floating-point valued be double?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-14 Thread Jonathan Polley
I have FlightGear building without warnings under MSVC, with the following exceptions: FDM/ExternalNet.cxx has two byte-order conversion on bool. What size is bool? I know, I could instrument the code, but it is getting late. FDM/UIUCModel/uiuc_menu.cpp: the check_float() function doesn't lo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-14 Thread Michael Selig
At 4/14/02, you wrote: >I will volunteer for making the MSVC patches for all the areas but >panel.cxx and the FDMs. The file panel.cxx has NONE defined as a macro >and the chance is too high for me to mess something up in the FDMs (and >they are under active development). I will also not touc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-14 Thread David Megginson
Jonathan Polley writes: > The file panel.cxx has NONE defined as a macro Actually, the file explicitly *un*defines NONE as a macro so that it won't interfere with properly-scoped enumerated values from elsewhere. I don't know if that's still necessary -- it's worth a quick test. > 'class ss

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-14 Thread Jonathan Polley
I will volunteer for making the MSVC patches for all the areas but panel.cxx and the FDMs. The file panel.cxx has NONE defined as a macro and the chance is too high for me to mess something up in the FDMs (and they are under active development). I will also not touch type mismatches such as:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-14 Thread David Megginson
Jonathan Polley writes: > My preference would be to have me keep the list fo MSVC build errors > up-to-date and come up with a deadline when certain errors will be fixed > (especially the ones in FDM\LaRCsim\ls_model.c). Patches are best (for me; full files if you send to Curt). If you sim

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-14 Thread Jonathan Polley
On Sunday, April 14, 2002, at 03:42 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: > Jonathan Polley wrote: > >> I can easily submit patches for the more obvious errors (eliminating >> unreferenced local variables, adding some type casts), but I don't feel > > Well, that can be problemeatic, since it might hide other

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Jonathan Polley wrote: > I can easily submit patches for the more obvious errors (eliminating > unreferenced local variables, adding some type casts), but I don't feel Well, that can be problemeatic, since it might hide other problems if changed without knowing the code well enough ... Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-13 Thread Jonathan Polley
On Saturday, April 13, 2002, at 02:39 PM, David Megginson wrote: > Jonathan Polley writes: > >> I know that there was some discussion on this topic just after the >> 0.7.9 release, but I don't remember the outcome (or if there was >> one). Will the next release be feature adding, or bug squashi

re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-13 Thread David Megginson
Jonathan Polley writes: > I know that there was some discussion on this topic just after the > 0.7.9 release, but I don't remember the outcome (or if there was > one). Will the next release be feature adding, or bug squashing, > release? The reason that I am asking is because of the warning

[Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-13 Thread Jonathan Polley
I know that there was some discussion on this topic just after the 0.7.9 release, but I don't remember the outcome (or if there was one). Will the next release be feature adding, or bug squashing, release? The reason that I am asking is because of the warnings that I see begin generated by M