[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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