[ODE] vector has zero size

[Geoff Carlton]

Yes, I don't think the people who responded really understood that.  It 
was a while back, and I don't think there would be the same response 
from the active developers who are around now.

Geoff

John Miles wrote:
> What?  That's odd... epsilons are by definition not globals, since they have
> to be chosen with knowledge of the expected range.
>
> -- john
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ode-bounces at q12.org [mailto:ode-bounces at q12.org]On Behalf Of Jon
>> Watte (ODE)
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:02 PM
>> To: Wouter Mollemans
>> Cc: ode
>> Subject: Re: [ODE] vector has zero size
>>
>>
>> To debug this, you need to figure out which primitive it is that causes
>> this problem. It is not a problem that is known in general, and if it
>> actually happens, it is a bug in ODE.
>>
>> I had this happen a while back when a capsule was pushing into a box; it
>> turned out to be a division by a denormal number. I patched it locally,
>> but the patch was rejected by the ODE community because it hard-coded
>> float and double epsilons instead of introducing them as globals.
>>
>>
>>     
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