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Bug DescriptionScriptBasic handles real number constants having no exponential part erroneous.Bug Reason, What Causes the BugWhen a constant is a real number but does not have exponential part the internal variables in the lexical analyzer that should hold the exponent sign and value are not initialized, but used to put calculate the value of the number.On some platforms this error does not manifest because the default value for these variables were zero or small. SolutionThe next release will deliver a corrected version. Due to the severity of the error a maintenance build, v1.0b27 should be expected.
For those, who are able to edit the source and recompile the code the following patch should be applied:
Bug Workaround Until Solution is AvailableWhenever there is a need for a real number constant in the code use exponential part. For example write 1.0e0 instead of 1.0.AcknowledgementMerten Joost [evol@uni-koblenz.de] recognized the error and he also pointed out the bug location and he proposed the solution. Because the variables were automatically initialized to very small values on both Windows NT and on Debian Linux the developers used, the error was not reproducible. |