Re: Jongware -> Building Galaxy Generator in C#

<MICHAEL.MCALEA@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>I've boiled the entire program down to a
> very simple turbo c++ app written specifically to test the output
> number of stars. Unfortunately it is still producing the incorrect
> numbers of stars!  The name generation code is working well on the
> plus side though.

Well, 50% ain't bad ...

> When I scale this program up to c# I get the same error as well.
>
> I'm either beginning to believe I'm somehow being incredibly stupid or
> it must be the compiler. Which compiler etc are you using to build
> your app? I'm using good old Borland Turbo C++ Version 3.0 dated 1992.

Borland C++ 5.3 for Win32; the command line version, which is totally free
(!).
The same code also works on MSVC 6.0, well, after adjusting for their
deviant
rotl interpretation.
I can't think of anything other than variable size, as these are my
conversions
from the original registers used. That explains, by the by, why I had to
add
some manual overrides (i.e., casts to signed long).
Main input values are the galaxy array itself (unsigned char) and
SystemDensity
(unsigned short). Perhaps your compiler casts these wrong ... for example,
if
the input line is ecx >>= 16; your compiler may treat it accidentaly as
*signed*, so 0x8000 becomes 0xffff.

[Jw]