Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aero!swed
From: swed@aerospace.aero.org (Gregory D. Swedberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Crashing the window mgr from GL programs
Keywords: NaNs?  infinities?
Message-ID: <80192@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
Date: 6 Aug 90 15:32:23 GMT
References: <1990Aug3.075057.11705@cs.umn.edu> <11361@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Reply-To: swed@aero.UUCP (Gregory D. Swedberg)
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
Lines: 5


	I have run into exactly this problem when the wrong type is
passed to a GL function.  The window manager especially hates passing
doubles to routines expecting floats.  The same thing also happens if
a float value is NaN.