> The stack itself has a limited size.  It cannot really be explained to a
> non-programmer well at all...sorry!

I am a programmer, but only novice. I was just interested
in the type of data. Rays, samples, colors, statistics for
color calculations...

Interested just out of curiosity, not because I could actually do
something about that... :-)

But nevermind, you probably have more important issues
at hand than explaining details I couldn't even change something
about. I just like to put my nose everywhere... :-)


-- 
Tim Nikias v2.0
Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights

>
> > OTOH, I don't know what is actually overflowing, so
> > I might be suggesting complete bullsh** here. But isn't
> > there a possibility for a more user-friendly approach?
> > Like a message telling me "Don't use so many freakin'
> > radiosity samples, it cracks me up!" or so?
>
> This isn't a message that comes from POV-Ray itself.  If an application
runs
> out of memory in a certain way (that is on the stack), the operating
system
> will notice.  Usually an application then crashes unless it is able to
catch
> this notice from the operating system.  This is what POV-Ray for Windows
> does.
>
> > So, then just out of interest: what is actually placed in
> > the stack which overflows?
>
> The stack itself has a limited size.  It cannot really be explained to a
> non-programmer well at all...sorry!
>
>     Thorsten
>
> ____________________________________________________
> Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
> e-mail: tho### [at] trfde
>
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