5 Jun
2012
5 Jun
'12
7:24 p.m.
On 5 June 2012 20:03, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
?I think this is a wonderful piece of work. ?Congrats on getting it
running! ?I'm sure that was no easy feat, especially with the VAX's lack
of IEEE floating point support. (which everything seems to depend on
nowadays, whether it does one whit of math or not!)
Thanks - most of the entertainment is documented on the page :),
though the fact strtod() doesn't play well with D-FLOAT numbers is
proving tricky. That code is quite gnarly and some of the defines are
decidedly non-obvious.
MySQL still seems to be SEGVing on startup, which I'll get back to
when I have some time - for now wopr is building PostgreSQL, which has
always been my preferred SQL database anyway. I'd put something like
MongoDB on it to tick the NoSQL box, but that needs python to build,
which fails due to missing libffi :/
Anyway, next big challenge for me is going to be to work out why the
keyboard and mouse are happy on the console but misbehave under X :)