Warp wrote:

>   I can't find the bug. No-one else can either (I have consulted with Ron,
> Nathan and Chris H).
>   There's a persistent bug (I wrote about it some time ago) and I just can't
> find what's wrong with the code. I don't think that it's typing mistake
> or anything, but I have the feeling that some povray functions might work
> a bit differently than I expect and that's what's causing the problem.
> Finding the problem would require more knowledge about povray and/or a lot
> of testing.
>   The patch would be more or less ready if there wasn't that bug.
>
>   So I'm sorry. I can't make it.

Aagh. Debugging is the bain of your existence no doubt. Knowing your programming
skill no doubt if you can't find it it is quite a problem indeed. There's so
much complicated inner workings that can elude you, I remember a long time ago
trying to make some program with pointers to structures that read the structure
from a binary file, got all screwed up by byte alignment and I had to break the
fread()s down into the individual elements once my brother found the problem.

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