[softwarelist] Re: 32-bit OPro applets.
- From: Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 22:31:23 +0000
On 5 Nov, Colin Ferris wrote in message
<fe70f96154.cferris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> In message <aaabee6154.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 5 Nov 2014 Chris Johnson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > In article <5c35e66154.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> >> Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > > The fact that you were using tinct before (I assume if you have only
> > > now set the choices to use os only) *may* have caused some of your
> > > problems. As far as I remember, tinct was thought to be the culprit of
> > > a number of random problems in the early days of the BB. Since the
> > > Netsurf developers have no access to the tinct source code, it is
> > > unlikely to be fixed in the near future.
>
> Looking at Tinct and Iconv - both look as written in Assembler.
Iconv should be ARMv7 aware: it's written in C and the source code is
available to the developers.
> This program is dated 2006 - For use with the RiscPc/Iyonix.
Er, the last version of Iconv is dates 2013...
Tinct is another matter. You need to turn it off in NetSurf's choices for
use on modern hardware, but AFAIK there's no need to comment it out of the
!Run file.
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