POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.beta-test: Known Bugs 24 Dec 2001 (beta 9): Re: Known Bugs 24 Dec 2001 (beta 9)

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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 25 Dec 2001 06:38:06
Message: <3c28651e$1@news.povray.org>

In article <3C280947.A022C587@pacbell.net> , Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet>  
wrote:

>> sin(X)^sin(X) -> crash! (job000179 and job000180)
>> http://news.povray.org/3baf7992@news.povray.org
>
> This does not crash in beta9. At least not with the MSVC compile.

It is a precision issue:  Only if there are certain input and output values
the power function will raise a signal which is not caught by POV-Ray.

    Thorsten

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