POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : What's this error message? : Re: What's this error message? Server Time
6 Aug 2024 23:24:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: What's this error message?  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 9 Jan 2002 06:12:57
Message: <3c3c25b9@news.povray.org>
In article <3c3af609@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>   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.

Actually, it is a corrupted font file and POV-Ray doesn't catch the problem
early enough.  In the particular font file there is an empty kerning table.

    Thorsten

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