I hate to say it, but, the running the
one sample scene "test_blinn_and_pp.pov"
causes an error:
Unknown Error 17
Attempt to free NULL pointer (file: C:\pov\mypov\source\Povray.c Line
1914).

And it repeats this error message until the program freezes.

I am using Win98SE PII 400 w/ 128 meg.
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than the reality of the appearance."
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Started to trouble shoot the problem by not using the
first nonstandard feature. I commented out the line 
with  post_process {focal_blur{ 5, 10, 6}} in the
global_settings group. It worked fine. This should help
the bug search.

"mr.art" wrote:
> 
> I hate to say it, but, the running the
> one sample scene "test_blinn_and_pp.pov"
> causes an error:
> Unknown Error 17
> Attempt to free NULL pointer (file: C:\pov\mypov\source\Povray.c Line
> 1914).
> 
> And it repeats this error message until the program freezes.
> 
> I am using Win98SE PII 400 w/ 128 meg.
> --
> Mr. Art
> 
> "Often the appearance of reality is more important
> than the reality of the appearance."
> Bill DeWitt 2000

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Wouldn't it be a good idea to run the program through a utility which
checks memory usage validity etc? It may catch several bugs.
  I think there's a utility called purify, but I think it works only with
C++. I also think that it's commercial and costs a lot.

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Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
>   Wouldn't it be a good idea to run the program through a utility which
> checks memory usage validity etc? It may catch several bugs.
>   I think there's a utility called purify, but I think it works only with
> C++. I also think that it's commercial and costs a lot.

A variety of free tools exist for Unix.  Electric Fence, Checker, mpr,
etc.  I'll look into this.

-Mark Gordon

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mr.art <mr.### [at] gcinet> wrote:

> I hate to say it, but, the running the
> one sample scene "test_blinn_and_pp.pov"
> causes an error:
> Unknown Error 17
> Attempt to free NULL pointer (file: C:\pov\mypov\source\Povray.c Line
> 1914).
Make sure you output an image if you use this scene (tga,png,..).
Once you do this, it will render, it needs an image to post process!
We know because we had the same problem :-)

Smellenbergh

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That's it! Thanks!

smellenbergh wrote:
> 
> mr.art <mr.### [at] gcinet> wrote:
> 
> > I hate to say it, but, the running the
> > one sample scene "test_blinn_and_pp.pov"
> > causes an error:
> > Unknown Error 17
> > Attempt to free NULL pointer (file: C:\pov\mypov\source\Povray.c Line
> > 1914).
> Make sure you output an image if you use this scene (tga,png,..).
> Once you do this, it will render, it needs an image to post process!
> We know because we had the same problem :-)
> 
> Smellenbergh
> 
> --
> e-mail:sme### [at] skynetbe
> 
> http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh

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than the reality of the appearance."
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Nieminen Juha wrote in message <38948df6@news.povray.org>...
>  Wouldn't it be a good idea to run the program through a utility which
>checks memory usage validity etc? It may catch several bugs.
>  I think there's a utility called purify, but I think it works only with
>C++. I also think that it's commercial and costs a lot.


POV-Ray does this internally.  To turn it on, uncomment the definitions of
"MEM_TAG" and "MEM_TRACE" in the config.h file before compiling the program.
Note: this does slow down rendering noticeably.

Mark

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Nieminen Juha <war### [at] punarastascstutfi> writes:

>   Wouldn't it be a good idea to run the program through a utility which
> checks memory usage validity etc? It may catch several bugs.
>   I think there's a utility called purify, but I think it works only with
> C++. I also think that it's commercial and costs a lot.

It works fine with C code too. I have used it once with the megapatch and
got several dozens of errors "uninitialized memory read". Since Nathan
replied that it doesn't matter since the value isn't used anyway, I was
discouraged to search for other errors.

Thomas


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