[APBeta] Windows bug
Paul Rodman
paul at ilanga.com
Fri Oct 17 09:41:53 PDT 2008
On Oct 17, 2008, at 09:11 AM, Paul Rodman wrote:
> I have been forced to use a previous version of the compiler for the
> Windows build of APV2, since recent versions cause crashes (illegal
> instruction). It would seem very likely that this occurs only on PCs
> that have processors that do not have SSE3 extensions (older P4s and
> before). This is a compiler bug and should be fixed soon by the
> vendor (yeh, right). Meantime, I dug my old Dell PIII laptop from
> the garage and it shows the same crashing problem, so I have hopes
> for a workaround now that I can reproduce the problem.
I have located and fixed/bypassed the bug. Woo hoo. No more separate
Windows compiles (or should I say _remembering_ that I have to use the
older compiler).
Paul R.
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