POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Spherical displacement map : Re: Spherical displacement map Server Time
1 May 2024 14:46:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Spherical displacement map  
From: William F Pokorny
Date: 20 Jul 2020 20:15:05
Message: <5f163389$1@news.povray.org>
On 7/13/20 8:46 AM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> "Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
>>
>> That threw everything out of the valid -1 to 1 input range for the acos
>> function.
> 
> Nevertheless, the renderer should not dump core, regardless of user error.
>

In the FWIW catagory, it looks like a function POVFPU_Exception() was 
mostly commented out in v3.7 and remains unchanged in v3.8. There are 
some TODOs in the code for it. It's still called from many places in the 
vm code, but...

Bill P.


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