POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.beta-test: Segmentation fault with animation of large image: Re: Segmentation fault with animation of large image

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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 29 Jan 2012 15:53:23
Message: <4f25b1c3@news.povray.org>

On 29.01.12 12:11, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Le 28/01/2012 22:09, Thorsten Froehlich nous fit lire :
>> On 28.01.12 19:54, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>>>> I have not run an animation this large in Windows, so I don't know if
>>>> it's a
>>>>>   problem there.
>>> Well, if someone can try that on Windows (animation, picture size bigger
>>> in any dimensions, including both, than the available display)
>>>
>>
>> Why would a crash in Unix-specific code have any impact on
>> Windows-specific code?
>
> Not directly, but a similar error might have been copied&pasted... or
> served as a common design (by same authors or like, so it was an error
> on unix, it might also on others.. I just do not know their ways of
> handling the scaling (if any) of large pictures)

Well, xcb_io.c is a system library and not POV-specific, so it cannot be a 
POV-Raz bug. Googling suggests the assertion failure is actually a race 
condition in some ATI binary-only graphics drivers...

	Thorsten

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