RE: [iPAQ] v0.16 Status? Doom Status?

Maybe replacing the non-alignment aware casts with memcopy would fix
everthing, but performance would suffer. The other option is that there is
an ARM Doom version out there somewhere we just need to find it and try it.

--George

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamey Hicks [mailto:jamey@crl.dec.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 2:48 PM
> To: 'Tom_Kirksey@ingersoll-rand.com'; ipaq@handhelds.org
> Subject: RE: [iPAQ] v0.16 Status? Doom Status?
>
>
>
> George and I were just looking at the lxdoom sourcecode. It has some
> serious problems with pointer alignment. As it restores a
> file, it bumps
> forward a char * pointer by various amounts, casts that to
> char *, short *
> or int *, and attempts to access it. I think this probably
> explains why
> lxdoom does not work on ARM.
>
> Add -Wcast-align to CFLAGS to get gcc to tell you where such
> conversions are
> going on.
>
> -Jamey
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom_Kirksey@ingersoll-rand.com
> > [mailto:Tom_Kirksey@ingersoll-rand.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 2:33 PM
> > To: ipaq@handhelds.org
> > Subject: [iPAQ] v0.16 Status? Doom Status?
> >
> >
> > What is the current status of v0.16? What new goodies will
> > be included?
> >
> > Has anyone had any luck lately with the Doom port? I spent
> > the weekend
> > destroying and trying to fix my /home directory and didn't
> > have a chance to
> > work on it (few things are more dangerous than the simple
> > letters "su").
> >
> > BTW, Jimmy at jimmysoftware.com is about to release Doom
> for CE on the
> > iPaq. I think he is going to use on screen buttons to work
> around the
> > "button problem". I would prefer to use the "fire button"
> (center of
> > joypad). On screen buttons would be nice for weapon changes
> > and cheats
> > (though I *NEVER* need cheats) :-)
> >
> > Tom
> >
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