Nicolas Calimet <pov### [at] freefr> wrote:

>         Sorry, but when again trying on a Digital Alpha architecture,
> my cube example above crashes with floating exception. This is for
> mpov-0.6.2 which is based on MegaPOV 0.6a.
> 
>         Looking back into the source, the infamous Compose_Transform()
> with an unassigned &Local_Trans is still there. It does not crash
> Linux and SGI, but does for DEC. I cannot test other architectures,
> including, in particular, Win or MacOS (maybe could with SunOS).


> 
>         The weird image I obtained previously with the mpov-0.6.1 code
> has been solved by another portion of code in parse.c; using a 'diff'
> on files of the two distro, mpov-0.6.2/parse.c has some change from
> the lines 9004 to 9007 in Parse_Transform() function. The problem I'm
> talking about is at line 1081 in Parse_Object_Mods().

This is indeed wrong and a bug. However, it doesn't crash the Mac
either.
 
Anyway, looking at the source, it seems to me that it has been a bug
even before the TransformPatch.

>         I hope this will be fixed in the next MegaPOV release, or I
> will have to report it again ;-)
Well, I have fixed that now so if there is ever going to be a next MP it
will be fixed.
I guess I overlooked that specific problem, sorry for that!

Smellenbergh
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