POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Fix for a bug in the SuperPatch and UVPov : Re: Fix for a bug in the SuperPatch and UVPov Server Time
2 Sep 2024 16:20:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fix for a bug in the SuperPatch and UVPov  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 30 Nov 1999 08:25:09
Message: <3843d035@news.povray.org>
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 21:34:21 -0800, Ken wrote:
>
>
>Mark Wagner wrote:
>> 
>> In both the SuperPatch and UVPov there is a memory leakage that occurs
>> whenever Copy_Object is called.  The bug is that the UV transform for the
>> object is copied twice -- once by COPY_OBJECT_FIELDS and once by
>> Copy_Object.  As a result, the memory used by the first copy is lost.  The
>> fix for this is to remove one of the instances of copying the UV transform.
>> 
>> Mark
>
>Do you know if this is present in the official distribution ?

It's specific to UV mapping, so I'm guessing not, though it might be in 3.5.

-- 
These are my opinions.  I do NOT speak for the POV-Team.
The superpatch: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/superpatch/
My other stuff: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.