POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Color Passing in #macro : Re: Color Passing in #macro Server Time
10 Aug 2024 23:28:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Color Passing in #macro  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 29 Nov 1999 19:46:48
Message: <38431e78@news.povray.org>
In article <3842979b@news.povray.org> , Nieminen Juha 
<war### [at] punarastascstutfi>  wrote:

>   Does this mean that when povray expects a vector and it finds a
5-dimensional
> one, it promotes it to a 4-dimensional vector?

No, it tries to use memcpy to convert an array of doubles to an array of
floats ... look at the report posted in povray.bugreports and the source of
this strange error will be obvious. Fortunately it doesn't copy more bytes,
but less!


    Thorsten


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