On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 22:33 -0700, John Wilson wrote:
> Been driving myself crazy trying to get your
> stuff to run in the SDL version of Fractint.
I need to get the fast parser running. It is in assembly language and
I thought I would start with something simple like the Mandelbrot set
assembly code. Turns out it isn't so simple. I haven't figured out
the calling convention for calling a C function from the assembly code.
I have it working under Linux in a 64-bit environment, but it crashes
whenever the video mode is changed (like on startup). I took a brief
look at it under Windows (a 32-bit environment) but it won't assemble
and/or doesn't create the correct type of object file to link with.
Now that I have a small amount of experience with the current
environments and using assembly language, I will try the parser
assembly code. It doesn't make any calls to C routines.
As a historical note, I had the fast parser assembly code assembling
and running with Xfractint but it wouldn't display an image. I never
tracked down what the problem was. So, I actually have a reasonable
starting point (other than the change from 32-bit to 64-bit).
Jonathan
