Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Modular synths of the world, unite and take over :-)
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 11:24:51 EET
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 01:19:37 -0800, Thomas Webb wrote:
> > You cant generate "normal" DSP code from C as it
> > tends to be fixedpoint,
> > and C doesn't support it.
> >
> > - Steve
>
> Yeah, fixed point DSPs are cheaper, no? I wasn't
> suggesting using a C compiler to generate assembler. I
> was thinking more along the lines of making a new
> compiler/converter kinda thingy that creates the code
> itself from xml files..
I thin you maybe misunderstood the tech here, its just XML with lumps of C
in it, the XML takes care of the tedious pointer mangling that is required
to made a plugin in C: http://plugin.org.uk/ladspa-swh/amp_1181.xml
(view source in Moz, cos it uses the CSS stylsheet to render it by
default).
- Steve
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