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From: Severi Salminen
Subject: Still the same bug in beta 4
Date: 17 Apr 2004 12:59:12
Message: <40816260$1@news.povray.org>
The same bug seems to be still alive in Pov-Ray for Windows 3.6 beta 4:

First create a file "temp.dat" that has only one numerical value in it 
("0", without quotes, newline doesn't matter) in the same directory as 
the scene below. When I try to render the scene, I get 'The instruction 
at ".." referenced memory at "..". The memory could not be "read"'. This 
is the scene:

#declare A = 0;
#macro Read_Data()
     #fopen File "temp.dat" read
     #read(File, A)
     #fclose File
#end
Read_Data()

If the first line (#declare A=0;) is commented out I get the same error 
expect '...could not be "written"'.

Now, if I place a comma "," (no quotes) after the "0" in temp.dat the 
scene parses normally in both cases.

Interestingly, the next scene renders normally even _without_ the comma 
mentioned above - also without the first declaration. The only 
difference is that macro is not being used.

#declare A = 0;

#fopen File "temp.dat" read
#read(File, A)
#fclose File

Severi S.


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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: Still the same bug in beta 4
Date: 17 Apr 2004 13:05:17
Message: <408163cd$1@news.povray.org>
In article <40816260$1@news.povray.org> , Severi Salminen 
<sev### [at] NOT_THISsibafi>  wrote:

> The same bug seems to be still alive in Pov-Ray for Windows 3.6 beta 4:

As you reported it a day before the beta 4 was made, what chance could we
have had to fix it?  And as the release notes do not claim that it was fix,
this is hardly unexpected...

    Thorsten

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From: Severi Salminen
Subject: Re: Still the same bug in beta 4
Date: 17 Apr 2004 17:50:11
Message: <4081a693$1@news.povray.org>
> > The same bug seems to be still alive in Pov-Ray for Windows 3.6 beta 4:
>
> As you reported it a day before the beta 4 was made, what chance could we
> have had to fix it?  And as the release notes do not claim that it was
fix,
> this is hardly unexpected...

That was a bit unnecessary. I'm not making _any_ assumptions on how
fast/slow or often/seldom you correct bugs or what "chances" you have fixing
a certain bug, I make no assumptions on how hard/easy the bugs are to fix
nor do I make any assumptions on what things are changed between various
beta versions that might affect the bugs. I have no way knowing anything
about those things. I simply reported that the bug was still present in the
newest beta - nothing more, nothing less. I thought this was the purpose of
public beta testing and I still think.

Regards,
Severi S.


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From: Chris Cason
Subject: Re: Still the same bug in beta 4
Date: 18 Apr 2004 08:32:40
Message: <40827568@news.povray.org>
Thanks for reporting this. We'll ensure it is fixed.

-- Chris


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