WP 34S and 31S bugs and fixes

[Nigel (UK)]

(12-27-2014 02:33 PM)Marcus von Cube Wrote:  

(12-26-2014 06:12 PM)Nigel (UK) Wrote:  I've given a WP-34S containing firmware with the question mark problem to someone as a Christmas present. Apart from the unnecessary menu entry, are there likely to be any more problems with it?

I'd bet there are. It is better to update the device if possible.

Here's how the story finally ends.

Your update to the makefile didn't fix my particular problem - I had flashed my calculator with a file from the repository that didn't have the issue and mistakenly thought that it had gone for ever. I finally tracked down the cause to the compiler - not the yagarto compiler, but the gcc 4.8.1 compiler that came with MinGW. The flag -DREALBUILD as a compiler option was generally not defining REALBUILD, so that the INCLUDE_STOPWATCH "flag" was set in features.h (and hence elsewhere) in some runs and not set in other runs. This led to variations in the number of functions defined in different compiler runs, one effect of which was the "gap" in the catalogue that I noticed. I am sure that there were other effects as well, none of them good!

I have now reverted to an earlier gcc compiler (4.5.2) and everything compiles without issue. I shall not update MinGW again!

Thank you for helping me with this - the correct copy of catalogues.h was invaluable.

Nigel (UK)