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Re: Bug#134822: celestia: Celestia dies with "Floating point exception"



"Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org> writes:

> >> Helge Kreutzmann <kreutzm@itp.uni-hannover.de> writes:
> 
>  > starbrowser.cpp:189: no matching function for call to `min (unsigned int &, size_t)'
> 
>  Weird.  I just fixed celestia to compile with gcc 3.0, which the is
>  closest thing I have to the version you have to use (AFAIK).  As far as
>  I can see, the powerpc autobuilder picked up this just fine, so I'm
>  tempted to call a bug on the alpha version of the compiler.

No, it is a bug in the code. std::min is declared as

template <class T> const T& min(const T& a, const T& b);

so the two parameters need to be of the same type. The call looks like
this:

min(nStars, solarSystems->size())

Where nStars is unsigned int and solarSystems-size() is size_t.  On 32
bit systems, size_t happens to be identical to unsigned int, so the
bug goes unnoticed.  The fix is to declare nStars as size_t, or to
cast one of the parameters.

        Falk



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