Am 17.01.2016 um 22:55 schrieb Ger:
> clipka wrote:
> 
>> Am 17.01.2016 um 20:43 schrieb Ger:
>>
>>> Consider the following piece of code
>>> Including a datafile in the main body works, but
>>> including it inside a #macro results in an error
>>> at random frames in the animation. It can be at
>>> frame 10 or at frame 500.
>>
>> It certainly isn't intended behaviour, otherwise it would give you an
>> error all the time ;)
>>
>> Can you be more specific about the error message you get? Version and
>> operating system might also play a role.
> 
> Povray V3.7 running on  Opensuse 13.2

Um... /what/ version of POV-Ray 3.7? 3.7.0 stable? 3.7.1-alpha.7678995?
3.7.1-alpha.8433080?

Did you build it yourself, or did you get it as binary via some package
manager?

> Error message is all over the field and makes zero sense to me.
> Error at line 249 (or any other bizarre line number, file only has 51 lines) 
> in data.inc. Expected {fill in whatever }, found {fill in whatever} instead
> Or it stops with a "mismatched #end"

That /certainly/ is a bug, though I have no initial idea what might be
going wrong there.

> I have ran it with array sizes from only 5 lines to 15K lines and that 
> doesn't make a difference in either error message or frame number when it 
> crashes.

Can you provide me with a complete scene file (attachment please;
pasting into a newsgroup post tends to break things due to line wrapping
and the like)?

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