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  • I take back most of the nice things I've said about BREW

  • Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
 #90664  by Nev
 Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:49 am
How many people here would be willing to join me in the statement that a set of software-emulated floating point routines, on a processor implemented without native floating point support, is almost useless without a function to convert your float type to an integer?

Every version of BREW running on every phone out there does not have one. Qualcomm finally put one in with BREW 3.1, which is almost completely useless because most people (us included) aren't developing with 3.1 and only phones in mind, because the market penetration of 1.1 and 2.x devices is so great. I actually am not even sure there are any 3.1 phones that are even being sold at present. For most apps, my opinion is that it might be economically viable to develop for only 3.1 and later in, say, ten years, but not any @#@% time soon.

I want to find the guy who didn't put this in the BREW 1.0 spec and kill him, so that he will never unleash his 'tard design spec skills on the world again.

 #90680  by SineSwiper
 Tue Jul 26, 2005 6:47 pm
That's why it's called BREW. You have to BREW your own subroutines :)

 #90692  by Nev
 Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:57 am
AAAAIIIGGGHHH

I wish I had some free image space for hosting. Words cannot express my state of mind after the combination of that pun and the two days I've spent writing my own floating-point class. Only pictures. I can say that you may have ripped away the last vestiges of my sanity, though..

 #90699  by SineSwiper
 Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:21 am
Ahhh, good. My job is done here. I'm going to go to sleep now.

 #90701  by Tortolia
 Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:22 am
Mental wrote: I wish I had some free image space for hosting.
http://www.imageshack.us/

It survives Fark photoshop contests, it should suffice.