On 08/29/2014 06:58 AM, James Holsenback wrote:
> On 08/29/2014 04:32 AM, Alex wrote:
>> I get the following error when using a big inc file:
>>
>> "C:\Temp\POV\Mesh_tracts_big.inc" line 64136462: Parse Error: No
>> matching } in
>> 'object', float function 'float constant' found instead.
>>
>> But there is nothing wrong with that file. Note that I do *not* get
>> any error
>> when I use smaller file.
>>
>> I have put the relevant files (Mesh_tracts_big.inc,
>> Mesh_tracts_small.inc and
>> Scene_def.pov) here (~1/2 GB zip file):
>> http://www.isi.uu.nl/People/Alexander/files/POV.zip
>>
>> I am using Windows 7 Professional 64 bit OS (24 threads with 128 GB
>> RAM). To
>> render the big file, you need ~30 GB RAM. I used both the latest
>> POV-Ray version
>> and the previous one... no luck!
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for any help!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alexander
>>
>>
> Hmmm ... OK I'm seeing something similar with a big include file (> 75M)
> that I've been using for ages and /haven't/ touched since 2011
>
> ash@linux-c2bm:~/POV-Ray/Source $ ll ../Includes/gargoyle.inc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ash users 75777971 Apr  6  2011 ../Includes/gargoyle.inc
>
> File '/users/ash/POV-Ray/Includes/gargoyle.inc' line 2868724: Parse
> Error: Illegal character in input file, value is b7.
> Fatal error in parser: Cannot parse input.
>
> Odd that things worked fine two days ago (and yesterday) ... Indeed when
> I bring the file into gedit it halts reading the file for "illegal
> character" so I canceled ... however reading the file with vi I see a
> problem at the offending line:
>

>
> I've seen this before (different include), but didn't follow up as I was
> sure it would be one of those "I can't duplicate it" cases and I dropped
> it ... now with another user having problems I feel it's prudent to
> speak up now.
>

commented out offending line and now I get:

File '/users/ash/POV-Ray/Includes/gargoyle.inc' line 3097900: Parse 
Error: Expected 'numeric expression', } found instead
Fatal error in parser: Cannot parse input.

... it parsed past previous error and made it to the end of the file

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