would it be feasible to turn them off just for calls into the carbon framework and have them on the rest of the time?
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jonas Maebe > Sent: 04 November 2005 21:32 > To: FPC developers' list > Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] OpenGL and glut bugs in > Freepascal2.1.1runningwith Mac Os X Tiger ? > > > On 04 Nov 2005, at 22:23, Matthias Krenzer wrote: > > > 1.) Why are the fpc applications running fine after running some > > open gl applications written in c ? (maybe i didn't get it yet, sorry) > > Since we don't know what the bug in the Carbon framework is, that's > hard to guess. And for some people, C programs in which the fpu > overflow exceptions are enabled crash as well. > > > 2.) It does not sound very safe to turn of the floating point > > exceptions forever (or at least until Mac OS X 10.5). > > There's nothing unsafe about it (except if you want your program to > crash if it produces an fpu overflow). > > > Is there any possibility to create some clean workaround without > > needing the divine intervention of the apple fixing the carbon libs > > in 10.4 ? > > Since no one has a clue what causes the problem (except that it seems > to have something to do with fonts and possibly language settings), > I'm not sure how we could make another workaround than disabling the > exceptions. > > Jonas > _______________________________________________ > fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
