Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:33612 comp.sys.amiga.tech:5051 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!sun-barr!apple!amdahl!kevin From: kevin@uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Clague) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: A 3D Graphics shared lib ... Message-ID: Date: 11 May 89 14:50:33 GMT References: <9630@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <9641@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: kevin@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Clague) Distribution: na Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Lines: 36 In article <9641@watcgl.waterloo.edu> bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) writes: >(hows this for a good way to start a discussion ... talk to yourself on > the net!! ) > >In article <9630@watcgl.waterloo.edu> I wrote: >> [ discussion of which kind of floating point to use ] > >Based on some mail I got, I'm considering this as the solution: > >Three versions of the interface and lib: > >-(1 and 2) uses doubles and is compiled either for the IEEE lib or for inline > floating point. The two versions are compatible, and could be substitued > for each other, depending on the machine. > >-(3) uses floats and FFP > >How does this sound? It sounds like a great solution. Everyone gets what they want. >-- >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-///-= >= Blair MacIntyre, bmacintyre@watcgl.{waterloo.edu, UWaterloo.ca} \\\/// = >= now appearing at the Computer Graphics Lab, U of Waterloo! \XX/ = >= "Don't be mean ... remember, no matter where you go, there you are." BBanzai= -- UUCP: kevin@uts.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,seismo,oliveb}!amdahl!kevin DDD: 408-737-5481 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 [ Any thoughts or opinions which may or may not have been expressed ] [ herein are my own. They are not necessarily those of my employer. ]