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From: nemesis
Date: 1 Nov 2009 10:58:26
Message: <4aedb022@news.povray.org>

clipka wrote:
> - Photons paint a totally different picture: When compiled with Intel 
> icpc (both versions 11.0 and 11.1), POV-Ray has been segfaulting on me 
> sporadically (but quite frequently) ever since, with any scene that uses 
> photons. (We're talking about Debian Linux, both 4.0t5 "Etch" and 5.0.3 
> "Lenny", running on an AMD Phenom X4 9650.) When compiled with GNU g++ 
> (both versions 4.1.1 and 4.3.2), I have never encountered any such 
> crashes so far. I actually suspect some bogus optimization here.

and probably hard to find... :P

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