On 2010-03-03 20:42-0000 Andrew Ross wrote: > > David, > > I agree this is a potential problem, particularly if you are using > float rather than double precision. It should be fixed to stop > plplot getting stuck in an infinite loop, but to be honest > if you are really trying to plot such a small range then rounding > errors are likely to occur with all the rest of the plotting code > too. I'll add it to my list unless anyone else can provide a patch > first.
I also agree its a potential problem. Andrew or David if you are implementing a fix, I would like you to set some ridiculous maximum value on the number of tick marks (say 100000, we don't want to be anal-retentive here because there are probably some PLplot applications for long spectra that do have a rather large number of tick marks) and when that ridiculous limit is exceeded, give a warning (saying specifically more than 100000 tick marks were generated) and move on. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
