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RE: how crazy...
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'The Department of Getting-the-Paint-on-the-Taps-in-the-Bikeshed-perfect-while-the-Reactor-is-actually-melting-down-behind-you a.k.a. Futureshock: \"Hayulp! I can't live without conio\" and other refusals to face up to the reality of the 21st Century.'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:16:35 +0100
- Subject: RE: how crazy...
- References: <4653DAD1.8070006@gmail.com>
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On 23 May 2007 07:10, Carlo Florendo wrote:
> ...that vista restricts the memory gcc-compiled programs can allocate:
>
> http://www.trnicely.net/misc/vista.html
>
> TJM, aren't they? :)
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Carlo
You think that's crazy? I'll tell you what's crazy:
" The difficulty of finding a suitable alternate development environment is
aggravated by the fact that I need significant support for not only large
memory allocations, but also for the 80-bit long double data type (64-bit
mantissa), 64-bit integers, GMP (the GNU multiple precision library), and the
console support embodied in the conio.h of DJGPP and Borland C. "
Basically this guy[*] is doing big number crunching using heavy duty
floating point and massive memory allocation, and he's crippling it by running
the whole thing under a DOS extender in a 16-bit VM - and all because he can't
deal with not being able to use getch() when he wants to wait for the user to
"Press any key"! That's completely deedle-deedle-queep! <points at ear and
rotates finger while boggling eyes and allowing tongue to loll inanely out
corner of mouth>
WTF!
cheers,
DaveK
[*] - and I *do* mean that in the Gag Halfrunt sense of "he's just zis guy,
you know".
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