Hi Arjen,
This helps - I no longer get a crash. There is still a further issue
somewhere. I'll see if I can track it down.
Andrew
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 04:20:29PM +0200, Arjen Markus wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> I looked at the source code for the bindings and I realised that
> currently we do not use tcl_precision or something similar to _return_
> values from PLplot routines. Instead we simply use %f to format the
> returned number. Up to now that was satisfactory, but the time functions
> return data with high precision.
>
> As a temporary workaround, could you try with a format like %.20f -
> like:
>
> Line 283, 284 in pltclgen.tcl:
> "PLFLT& {
> puts $GENFILE " sprintf( buf, \"%.20f\", $argname($i) );"
>
> (I seem to have added all manner of comments about it - never got around
> to actually implement them. It was not pressing then. I will be glad
> to take care of it myself, once I can comfortably access my computer
> at home again)
>
> Regards,
>
> Arjen
>
> On 2009-08-19 13:41, Andrew Ross wrote:
> > Arjen,
> >
> > No problem. I've updated example 29, but because of rounding errors in tcl
> > it is crashing. I've disabled the call to plot4 for now.
> >
> > I think that xmin and xmax end up being very similar (differences of < 1
> > second
> > over ~1000 years. Tcl precision issues seem to make them identical which
> > causes
> > a zero x range for the plot and hence a crash.
> >
> > Are there any ways round this? I tried setting tcl_precision, but it made no
> > difference.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 09:09:38AM +0200, Arjen Markus wrote:
> >> Hi Andrew,
> >>
> >> thanks for taking care of the Fortran and Tcl bindings.
> >> (I would have done it myself, but my time at the keyboard
> >> at home is severely limited at the moment.)
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Arjen
> >>
> >> On 2009-08-18 17:51, Andrew Ross wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:05:31AM +0200, Werner Smekal wrote:
> >>>>> Ok,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I submitted now the last D example and the D bindings are therefore
> >>>>> finished. Actually not really finished, since example 20 delivers
> >>>>> slightly different postscript results than the C example. Although if
> >>>>> I compare the output (xwin, wxwidgets, psc) visually I can't spot any
> >>>>> difference. I don't think this is a showstopper, but will have a look
> >>>>> later on, I don't consider that as too serious.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In addition I ran the plplot tests on Mac OS X with the following
> >>>>> results:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Test timeout computed to be: 1500
> >>>>> c++
> >>>>> Missing examples :
> >>>>> Differing postscript output : 29
> >>>>> Missing stdout :
> >>>>> Differing stdout :
> >>>> Werner,
> >>>>
> >>>> This one I find odd. C++ results should be completely identical to the C
> >>>> ones since there is no worrying about cross-language support or any of
> >>>> that. I get identical results for all examples with C and C++ using
> >>>> latest
> >>>> svn.
> >>>>
> >>>>> java
> >>>>> Missing examples : 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
> >>>>> Differing postscript output : 19
> >>>>> Missing stdout :
> >>>>> Differing stdout : 19
> >>>>> python
> >>>>> Missing examples :
> >>>>> Differing postscript output :
> >>>>> Missing stdout :
> >>>>> Differing stdout : 23
> >>>>> tcl
> >>>>> Missing examples :
> >>>>> Differing postscript output : 03 16 19 21 24 26 29
> >>>>> Missing stdout :
> >>>>> Differing stdout : 21
> >>>>> d
> >>>>> Missing examples :
> >>>>> Differing postscript output : 20
> >>>>> Missing stdout :
> >>>>> Differing stdout :
> >>>>> -- Process completed
> >>>>> ***Failed
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 88% tests passed, 2 tests failed out of 17
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The following tests FAILED:
> >>>>> 3 - examples_java (Failed)
> >>>>> 17 - examples_compare (Failed)
> >>>>> Errors while running CTest
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The only bad error is the segmentation fault of the Java example 19.
> >>>>> Otherwise everything configures and compiles fine on Mac OS X.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Next I'll improve the Lua samples, then pdf, then wxWidgets device.
> >>>
> >>> I have now implemented all but the plslabelfunc call in f77 / f95
> >>> bindings
> >>> and updated the examples accordingly. I've left the plslabelfunc call to
> >>> last as it is a bit messy. Octave is also up to date (except for example
> >>> 19
> >>> - not yet worked out how to do function callbacks for mapform /
> >>> labelfunc.)
> >>>
> >>> tcl clearly still needs work, as do ada and ocaml. Otherwise, we're
> >>> beginning
> >>> to get all the languages and examples back into shape again ready for the
> >>> release.
> >>>
> >>> Andrew
> >>>
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