POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Bug verification: POV-Ray crashes if values are to long : Re: Bug verification: POV-Ray crashes if values are to long Server Time
9 Aug 2024 21:12:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Bug verification: POV-Ray crashes if values are to long  
From: PoD
Date: 29 Apr 2000 18:19:44
Message: <390B6788.CE710C1A@merlin.net.au>
"Rick [Kitty5]" wrote:
> 
> > #declare a =  snip fest.......
> 
> i think making povray capable of working with such massive numbers would
> slow the whole thing down more than i would like, there have to be limits
> and not going crazy has to be one.
> 
> also i fail to see the use.....
> 
> Rick

If input values exceed the precision of the internal representation,
they should just be trimmed to fit, not crash the program.

A minor bug but still a bug.

PoD.


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