2002.01.24 ~22  q3asm-turbo3

(later that day)

OK, got it to work the way I wanted it.

The problem hinged on the combination of lcc's output of values and the way
atoi() functioned.  Floating-point values are expressed in the .asm files as
positive decimal value forms of little-endian IEEE-whatever-thingy
floating-point format interpreted as an integer.  This meant the decimal value
could range anywhere from 0 to (2^32 - 1).  However, there were explicit byte
vales of "-1" in various places as well (which made me keep atoi() for a
while).  Signed values are capped at 0x7FFFFFFF in atoi() (as it should), but
the float-point values were frequently surpassing that limit.  So almost all
the floating-poing values were coming out as 0x7FFFFFFF, since they were
expressed as Very Large Decimal Values.  (I have problems expressing my
technical thoughts...)  The end result was that a whole lot of math functions
came out insane.

The workaround was to create a new function that converts to something larger
than 32 bits (long long on gnu-x86 is signed 64 bits), then smash it down to 32
bits in a "proper" manner.  This might prove unportable, but like
relnev^WPeople's Linux-Centric Modifications To the Quake 2 Game Source, I'm
more concerned about making this work correctly on linux-x86 right now.
Thus ThingThatConvertsDecimalToSigned32SoThatAtoiDoesntCapAt7FFFFFFF().

At last, nice speedy 2-second linking that comes out correcty.