POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Calling external Math functions from .dll or .so: Re: Calling external Math functions from .dll or .so

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From: Mike Raiford
Date: 10 Feb 2005 13:29:13
Message: <420ba7f9$1@news.povray.org>

Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> No, it is an extremely bad idea as it is not portable and all this has 
> been explained several times in these groups.  It is never going to be 
> added to any official version of POV-Ray.

Not only that, but all it would take is one badly written plugin to 
corrupt POV-Ray's memory and crash POVRay with the blame on the POV-Team.

Though, I suppose you could use CORBA, COM, SOAP or any other IPC 
technology... <g,duck>

-- 
~Mike

Things! Billions of them!

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