From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Nov 8 19:15:43 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de X-ME-UUID: 20051108180815886.D85211C00094@mwinf1106.wanadoo.fr Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:08:14 +0100 From: Patrice Mandin To: Mint list Subject: Re: [MiNT] strange memory violation Message-Id: <20051108190814.77ade474.mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <1131420482.11016.80.camel@taro.coolrunningconcepts.com> References: <436DD2D2.6090103@hysteria.sk> <436DE43C.2010900@obta.uw.edu.pl> <1131275978.5390.55.camel@linuxbox> <436DEB54.9020600@hysteria.sk> <1131278971.5390.71.camel@linuxbox> <436F2870.1080000@hysteria.sk> <1131420482.11016.80.camel@taro.coolrunningconcepts.com> Organization: Chez moi X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.3 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS X-Spam-Level: ** Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by wh58-508.st.uni-magdeburg.de id jA8IFhvc019022 Le Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:28:01 -0600 Evan Langlois a écrit: > I find that most badly written software is written by people who are > simply ignorant of what is available, and are unwilling to take the > time to learn how to do it right. So, they stick with what they know, > and the end result usually works well for them, and anyone else stuck > using it puts up with the quirks. > > Please. Don't fall into this trap. Learn the right way to do it. > Its pretty obvious that you haven't thought this through. The problem is that it is currently not that easy to make clean code. And I think the cause is that most people don't want to code multiple code paths for mint/magic/tos/whatever. >From what I see in the code I wrote for SDL, most work was about trying to make things clean, which was a bit hard. And now, I must write a /dev/audio MiNT driver for SDL, so we could know if the current device driver is usable or not. -- Patrice Mandin WWW: http://pmandin.atari.org/ Programmeur Linux, Atari Spécialité: Développement, jeux