[Vm-dev] Cross file updates

[David T. Lewis]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 08:36:59PM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
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> On 07-03-2013, at 8:06 PM, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
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> > I tried changing the declaration to <var: #dispBits type: 'unsigned char * '>
> > and I still get exactly the same incorrect code generation.
> 
> That's a little alarming. Looks like something that used to over-ride the default with the contents of the special declarations is being sidestepped now.
> 
> > 
> > Tim, if you have an older version of VMMaker readily at hand from your
> > recent Pi work, could you take a look at the generated code for HostWindowPlugin
> > and see if it has this same bug?
> 
> The 3.9-ish code that I generated a month or so ago has
> usqInt * dispBits 
> &
> dispBits = ((unsigned *)(interpreterProxy->?

That is definitely wrong, because usqInt may be either 32 or 64 bits wide.

> 
> The very old 3.8 code I had archived uses 'unsigned *' in both cases but since that is what was originally in HostWindowPlugin.h that isn't surprising.
> 

This looks correct to me. Pointer to unsigned 32-bit words, the elements
of a Bitmap.

Dave