Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 18:17:19 01/21/00
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On January 21, 2000 at 21:08:18, Dann Corbit wrote:
>On January 21, 2000 at 20:59:40, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>On January 21, 2000 at 18:50:24, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>>
>>>I would like to add (the latest version of) the Nalimov EGTBs
>>>to my program Chest. I understand that the probe code module
>>>from Eugene Nalimov ("egtb.cpp" in the Crafty distribution)
>>>is C++, in a non-trivial way (contains templates).
>>>
>>>My program up to now is pure ANSI-C, and I would very much prefer
>>>to stick to ANSI-C, since I want it to be portable to all those
>>>UNIX platforms, which have an ANSI-C compiler, but lack a C++ compiler
>>>(e.g. my development platform).
>>>
>>>Is it somehow possible to access the Nalimov EGTBs by pure
>>>ANSI-C source code? All suggestions welcome!
>>>
>>>Heiner Marxen heiner@drb.insel.de http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/
>>
>>I haven't looked at the Nalimov probing code (recently), but you may be able to
>>adapt the code to ANSI C by doing some #define and (multiple) #include hackery
>>to simulate the template stuff, e.g.
>>
>>#define TemplateType float
>>#include "template_code.c"
>>#define TemplateType int
>>#include "template_code.c"
>>
>>Kinda gross, but you asked. :)
>
>The code is full of C++ isms like scope resolution operator obj:: etc.
>I don't think it will help much. E.g.:
> return TEnumerate1 < piw1, x_piecePawn == piw1 ? true : false, false >
>::Index (sqwk, sqw1, sqbk);
Hmm... sounds like Heiner had better get a egtb.o for his platform like you
suggested... or download g++ and compile it for his platform.
Dave
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