[ODE] Cross-platform woes

[Geoff Carlton]

Why do you need the simulation to be strictly identical?  Is it demos, 
network etc? 

There are usually ways around this for both, namely to just send the 
compressed position+orientation for bodies, rather than re-running the 
simulation.

Geoff


Keith Johnston wrote:

>Having finally conquered repeatability on the PC from
>one simulation run to the next, I am now trying to
>make simulations on the PC and Mac run *identically*. 
>I have tried truncating the physical properties to 2
>decimal places, but this has not solved the problem. 
>The same initial conditions on a simulation on the PC
>and the Mac still diverge.
>
>Perhaps the only solution is to give up on Visual C++
>and use gcc on windows - that way at least I'd be
>using the same compiler on both operating systems. 
>Currently we are using Xcode on the Mac and Visual
>Studio on windows.
>
>Has anyone ever gotten exactly the same simulation
>results on both Mac and PC?  How did you do it?
>
>Thanks,
>Keith
>
>
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