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Article #5390Re: -DGNU3 what is it for?
From: Chua Kong Sian
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 00:37
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 00:37
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Bernd Ebach (s_ebach@lyra.rz.uni-ulm.de) wrote: : I don't want to get lost in der sources of gnuchess. :) : Could someone tell me what the -DGNU3 compile time flag is for? : Thanx : TschauTschau : Bernd : -- : contraria non condradictoria sed complementa sunt. --- Niels Bohr : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : Bernd Ebach ////\\\\ Bernd.Ebach@Student.Uni-Ulm.De : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : Gegenaetze wiedersprechen sich nicht, sondern ergaenzen einander. The -DGNU3 flag is to turn off underpromotion. You would normally not need it. Yes, it is not intuitive, but at least its documented in the Makefile. I guess it comes from the fact that Gnu 3.1 does not generate underpromotion moves. Kong Sian <kongsian@nsrc.nus.sg>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,838b7e88f968a252 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-11-09 17:26:44 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsserver.technet.sg!nuscc.nus.sg!nsrccks From: nsrccks@leonis.nus.sg (Chua Kong Sian) Newsgroups: gnu.chess Subject: Re: -DGNU3 what is it for? Date: 10 Nov 1993 00:37:45 GMT Organization: National University of Singapore Lines: 28 Message-ID: <2bpd4p$2ik@nuscc.nus.sg> References: <1993Nov7.112056.22221@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: leonis.nus.sg X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0]