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3 May 2024 05:25:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 22-Character Crash  
From: andrel
Date: 18 Jul 2008 15:57:48
Message: <4880F5F6.2060300@hotmail.com>
On 18-Jul-08 21:36, How Camp wrote:
> Heh, in exploring the bounding box crashes I mentioned earlier, I'm now able to
> crash POV 3.6 (on winXP) using only a 22-character scene file:
> 
> #debug str(1E251,0,-1)
> 
> Aside from thoughts of starting a 'short crash contest', I'm curious if anyone
> can reproduce this, and whether the same behavior is present in 3.7.
> 
> POV only crashes with str(A,L,P) when the precision (P) is set to -1 (platform
> specific), so I suppose it might not crash on other platforms...
> 
> 
confirmed for win2k
1E250 also crashes here, minimum value until now 2E249
1E249 gives attached error.

pov3.5 does not crash
no beta 3.7 version here


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