Warp,
The problem I described is in Povray 3.5. I just tried the same thing using
Povray 3.1 and got a slightly different error message:

tex.pov:85: error: Attempt to malloc zero size block (File: ..\..\TRUETYPE.C
Line: 1212).

And with 3.1 the system doesn't lock up. What do you make of that?

Steve

Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message news:3c3af609@news.povray.org...
> Steve Shelby <ssh### [at] rexnetnet> wrote:
> : Parse Error: Attempt to malloc zero size block (file: ..\
> : ..\source\truetype.cpp line: 1275)
>
> : What does it mean?
>
>   It means that an unexpected error happened (one could call it a bug).
This
> is a problem in the source code of POV-Ray and it's nothing you can remedy
> by yourself (unless you fix the problem in the source code, of course).
>   Trying to allocate a 0-size block is always a sign that some sanity
check
> is missing.
>
>   If this happens in the latest 3.5beta, you should post a proper bug
report
> to povray.beta-test
>
> --
> #macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb
M()}}
> N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
> N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  -
Warp -

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