David J Taylor wrote: > Dave Hart wrote: >> David J Taylor: >>> Does this new release include the improved interpolation developed >>> by Dave Hart, and the Windows Vista/7 optimisations? >> No, those are only in 4.2.5p162 and later. See >> http://bugs.ntp.org/216 Very soon a release candidate cycle for 4.2.6 >> should start, so it shouldn't be terribly long before a -stable NTP >> release includes the new Windows interpolation code. 4.2.4p7 does >> have substantial improvements vs 4.2.4p6 in the Windows serial code >> used by, for example, the NMEA reference clock driver. However, >> lacking the 216 fix, it's not really a good choice for any upstream >> server duty, though it's great as a client assuming better than 1 >> millisecond accuracy is unimportant. > > Thanks, Dave. Looking forward to 4.2.6! > >>> You may know that I discovered a problem with Windows 2000 afer bug >>> fix 1149. Is the Windows 2000 fix 1191 included? >> Yes it is. Heiko also identified and fixed in the Meinberg release a >> problem building current NTP (-stable and -dev) using the now-ancient >> Visual C++ 6 compiler. Anyone attempting to build from source using >> VC6 should see http://bugs.ntp.org/1196 for the solution. I would >> appreciate contact from anyone building NTP using VC6, as I believe >> only Meinberg and possibly Danny Mayer are still using it with NTP. I >> hope to see support for VC6 dropped before too much longer, as it >> requires some ugliness in the code to work around half-implemented 64- >> bit scalar support. >> >> Cheers, >> Dave Hart > > That's good to hear. > > If it were possible to keep Visual Studio 2005 support that would be > "nice", as it might allow me to try building NTP here once again. Not > eseential, though.
I use VS 2005 for most of the work but I make sure that we can still support VC 6.0. I'm not sure what Dave means by half-implemented 64-bit scalar support, so maybe he can elaborate. Danny -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
