[Ktechlab-devel] The engine must be fixed. =|

[P Zoltan]

On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:14:18 +0200, Alan Grimes <agrimes at speakeasy.net>  
wrote:

> Right now the engine consists of my own matrix and vector classes
> (QuickMatrix and QuickVector). They're fairly robust and a fairly good
> balance between performance and features, ie no dynamic rescaling,  
> etc...)
>

  I think at this stage the main goals would be robustness and validity.


>
> I submitted a patch that will agressively abort the program if the
> engine doesn't produce a valid LU. This problem must be fixed before
> this branch of ktechlab moves forward. the bug is that severe! =|
>
> If this doesn't work, Ktechlab can't simulate jack. =(
>

  Aborting a program in such a way is a bad idea in my opinion. It's better  
to write a message like "Simulator bug!" and reset somehow the simulation.  
You can't debug a program that has exited.