[quake3] Bots on RISC-based systems

[Patrick Baggett]

Thanks for the responses.

I'm not having a problem with compiling the code, that much works fine.
I'm not using GCC, nor will I be. On IRIX/MIPS, GCC produces extremely poor
code compared to the native MIPSpro compilers, usually around a 30%-40% hit
in performance, especially with fp math. I have been having problems with
the bot library that deal with alignment (getting SIGBUS). I manually
aligned them in a few places, but have had other stranger problems than that
one. I actually filed a bug report at
http://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3427 that details my findings so
far.



On Nov 19, 2007 6:31 AM, Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel at suse.de> wrote:

> Patrick Baggett wrote:
> > Is anyone having problems using bots on RISC-based systems (SPARC, PPC,
> > MIPS)?
>
> Try using gcc or check your CFLAGS. Maybe your compiler doesn't
> automatically pad structures where required. When compiling ioq3
> with -Wpadded on e.g. ppc gcc shows that it pads *lots* of stucts.
> Among those:
> l_script.h:164: warning: padding struct to align 'floatvalue'
> l_script.h:171: warning: padding struct size to alignment boundary
>
> cu
> Ludwig
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