POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : MegaPov 1.2 crash to desktop : Re: MegaPov 1.2 crash to desktop Server Time
1 Jun 2024 00:36:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: MegaPov 1.2 crash to desktop  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 11 Jul 2005 08:20:02
Message: <dato3q$cpo$1@chho.imagico.de>
Nicolas Calimet wrote:
> 
>     Such a different behavior of Linux vs other platforms may well be the
> sign of uninitialized variables (in particular pointers).  Linux seems 
> to be
> sometimes quite permissive in this respect, i.e. it does not necessarily 
> make
> the program segfault when dereferencing an invalid pointer.

Actually we have most likely found the problem and it *should* crash as 
it is right now - the good old using-a-pointer-after-it-was-freed bug.

It only causes problems in scenes using Mechsim.

Christoph

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