A reference is basically anything with an address attached to it, such that it can (in theory) be assigned a value. This might be - for example - a variable, array index, or dereferenced pointer. To acknowledge the distinction from an expression without an address (e.g. '2+1'), you might call it an ...

I think putting the words "numeric" and "reference" together can be confusing. The word "numeric" is presumably there to indicate that the value of a character is a number (rather than, say, a 1-character string). But this is unclear because it's in a different part of ...

I think that you will need to keep the state of arr(,) unmodified until you’ve finished checking for neighbours.
This probably means maintaining a separate copy of the array, or at least the last couple of columns of it (seeing that you are sweeping the array from the left to right).

Looks like you searched for the wrong header...
Try installing libgpm-dev.
There's a list of dependencies for Debian at /wiki/DevBuildLinux. If you install all those, that should take care of any missing headers.

It's fairly easy to set up a grayscale palette in 8-bit mode, using the Palette i, r, g, b syntax.

Here's a rough translate of interp() to FB: function interp(sf as FILE ptr, script as ubyte ptr) as integer while true dim as integer code = setjmp(trap) select case code case 1 '' file syntax error if sf <> stdin then return 1 case 2 '' fault opc = pc case 3 '' "BREAK" if opc then pc = op...

Would the word "immediately" be clearer? For illustration purposes, here is a multi-line IF, with a colon immediately after the THEN: dim as boolean a 'a = true if a then : print "5" : print "again" : end if Or as a more readable multi-line IF using linebreaks: dim as b...

I don’t want to make any assumptions here, but it’s possible that errors with -O2 could be that something in the program is causing Undefined Behaviour, which works as desired in -O1 but not in -O2. Something harder to detect, like a buffer overrun clobbering an important part of memory. (Just specu...

Sorry for the time this bug has cost you. The vectorisation changes were added a long time ago by Bryan Stoeberl, and I don't think he's been around for some time. We should perhaps deprecate the -vec functionality and mark it as unstable/unmaintaned. It's perhaps obsolete now with the gcc emitter, ...

Mainly just to clean things up a bit I think. At the time, I maybe thought that lang qb users could do with more tailored documentation? I don’t know... I half thought the active/visible page parameters were only available in Lang qb, but it looks like lang fb has its own syntax for that too. Maybe ...

Since there is some interest still in keeping the thread open, I won’t intervene to close it. I don’t think at this time there’s enough uncivility to close it for that reason. From a personal perspective though, it does bother me how closed the project is. It seems like an interesting project, but n...

I’ve noted the complaints against this thread and this software. When I originally downloaded the .7z archive for this project, I couldn’t find any source code for the main program. Has this now changed? If not, I will lock this thread (unless another moderator beats me to it), since it’s blatant mi...

Hi, just to say I've split the thread from https://freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.p ... 31#p270431 to bring all the posts together. Hope that's helpful.

I’d feel much more comfortable about this compiler if it provided its source code. That’s what GitHub is meant for. You should also work out how to use Git properly, not just keep deleting and readding .7z files. Most people will not go to the trouble of downloading and extracting each version to se...

Command line or graphics or both?