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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: Inexplicable shadow?
Date: 20 Nov 1999 11:00:09
Message: <3836c589@news.povray.org>
In article <3835A790.A5D2D840@compuserve.com> , Chris Huff 
<Chr### [at] compuservecom>  wrote:

> Even stranger, it doesn't occur in my compile of the official
> version(POV-Ray PPC Mac version 3.1g.r1).
> This should be exactly the same as the official compile, but the problem
> seems to show itself only in the officially distributed version.

Different libraray and compiler versions...!


   Thorsten


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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: Inexplicable shadow?
Date: 20 Nov 1999 11:02:08
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In article <383### [at] compuservecom> , Chris Huff 
<Chr### [at] compuservecom>  wrote:

> It occurs in POV-Ray PPC Mac version 3.1g.r1, but does not occur in the
> latest release of POV-RayUnofficial.
> It also doesn't occur in the Mac version of the Superpatch which I did,
> I haven't compiled the version done by Thorsten Froehlich yet. The
> version I did was based on the MS-DOS Superpatch source.
> You are probably right, it looks like a precision thing.

Which of these versions are using "libmoto" (the fast Motorola FPU libraray
for PowerPC)?


    Thorsten


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Inexplicable shadow?
Date: 20 Nov 1999 11:02:28
Message: <3836C5D3.651D9A1@pacbell.net>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> In article <3835A790.A5D2D840@compuserve.com> , Chris Huff
> <Chr### [at] compuservecom>  wrote:
> 
> > Even stranger, it doesn't occur in my compile of the official
> > version(POV-Ray PPC Mac version 3.1g.r1).
> > This should be exactly the same as the official compile, but the problem
> > seems to show itself only in the officially distributed version.
> 
> Different libraray and compiler versions...!
> 
>    Thorsten

The question now is if it should be reported as an official bug ?

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