Merge branch 'master' into autobuild/alpha_v380

Author: c-lipka

.gitattributes

@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+# Override language auto-detection on GitHub.
 libraries/*             linguist-vendored
 distribution/**/*.inc   linguist-language=POV-Ray
+distribution/platform-specific/windows/Insert?Menu/*.txt linguist-language=POV-Ray
 **/*.pov                linguist-language=POV-Ray
+**/*.h                  linguist-language=C++
+source/povms/povms.h    linguist-language=C
+libraries/**/*.h        linguist-language=C
+libraries/boost/*.h     linguist-language=C++
+libraries/ilmbase/*.h   linguist-language=C++
+libraries/openexr/*.h   linguist-language=C++
+
+# Do not auto-merge version number file.
+source/base/version.h   -merge

appveyor.yml

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ for:
       $env:pov_release_type = ($env:pov_build_type).ToLower() + ' release'
       $env:pov_build_title = $env:pov_build_type + ' build'
       $env:pov_build_message += '**Note:** This is a binary-only ' + $env:pov_release_type + '; to install, copy the '
-      $env:pov_build_message += 'binary into an existing POV-Ray 3.7 installation. (Make sure to backup the original '
+      $env:pov_build_message += 'binary into an existing POV-Ray v3.7 installation. (Make sure to backup the original '
       $env:pov_build_message += 'binary first.)'
       $env:pov_build_message += "`n`n"
       $env:pov_build_message += 'These binaries require Windows Vista or higher, due to limitations of our automated '

changes.txt

@@ -37,13 +37,6 @@ This version is still under active development, and not finalized yet.
 NOTE: This release cycle has been redesignated v3.8.0. There will not be a
 v3.7.1 release proper.
 
-Performance Improvements
-------------------------
-
-  - Significantly improved parsing speed of skipped conditional blocks (e.g. in
-    `#if(false) ... #end`), especially for blocks containing few directives
-    (stuff that begins with `#`).
-
 Changed Behaviour
 -----------------
 
@@ -61,6 +54,30 @@ Changed Behaviour
   - Token counting in conditional blocks (e.g. in `#if ... #end`) has changed.
     Whenever such a block is skipped, the token count is now incremented only
     by directives (stuff that begins with `#`).
+  - UV mapping of cylinder, cone and lemon primitives has been disabled again
+    for now, due to their orientation being poorly defined.
+  - An age-old bug in the inbuilt `f_enneper` isosurface function has been
+    fixed; the function now results in the originally intended shape.
+
+New Features
+------------
+
+  - The `ovus` primitive has been extended in multiple ways. See the
+    documentation (currently being maintained on <http://wiki.povray.org>) for
+    details.
+  - Anti-aliasing now supports a new mode 3, which can actually serve as a
+    generic oversampling mechanism not only suited to perform edge
+    anti-aliasing, but also to successtully suppress moire patterns as well as
+    reduce image noise from stochastic mechanisms (e.g. jittered area lights,
+    subsurface light transport or micronormals). The mathematical background
+    and parameterization is similar to that of adaptive focal blur.
+
+Performance Improvements
+------------------------
+
+  - Significantly improved parsing speed of skipped conditional blocks (e.g. in
+    `#if(false) ... #end`), especially for blocks containing few directives
+    (stuff that begins with `#`).
 
 Fixed or Mitigated Bugs
 -----------------------
@@ -79,37 +96,68 @@ Reported via GitHub:
 
 Reported via the Newsgroups:
 
-  - <[email protected]>
-    (2018-08-27, povray.advanced-users, "Re: It gets even weirder.")
-    Trying to `#declare Foo[A][B]=...` with `Foo` being an array of arrays and
-    `Foo[A]` not yet initialized causes a hard crash instead of a parse error.
   - <[email protected]>
     (2017-11-05, povray.newusers, "orthographic camera and conic_sweep object")
     Sides of a `conic_sweep` prism become invisible when viewed head-on using
     an orthographic camera.
   - <[email protected]>
     (2018-01-05, povray.beta-test, "3.8.0 block pattern, density list parsing issue.")
+  - <[email protected]>
+    (2018-08-27, povray.advanced-users, "Re: It gets even weirder.")
+    Trying to `#declare Foo[A][B]=...` with `Foo` being an array of arrays and
+    `Foo[A]` not yet initialized causes a hard crash instead of a parse error.
+
+Reported by Coverity static code analysis:
+  
+  - CID 986462,986463 (Wrapper object use after free)
+  - CID 967358-967362 (Uninitialized scalar variable)
+  - CID 1372542-1372544 (Result is not floating-point)
+  - CID 1372618 (Uninitialized scalar variable)
+  - CID 1372629 (Uninitialized pointer read)
+  - CID 1372630-1372632 (Uninitialized scalar variable)
 
 Miscellaneous:
 
   - Fix `interior_texture` for text objects (as mentioned in GitHub issue #65)
   - Eliminated use of deprecated C++ `register` keyword (except in 3rd party
     libraries bundled with the POV-Ray source code).
+  - Fix long-standing bug in Julia fractal primitive using hypercomplex numbers.
+
+Development Related
+-------------------
+
+  - When compiled in debug mode, a new directive `#breakpoint` is now available,
+    intended for triggering an unconditional breakpoint from the scene file, or
+    priming a conditional breakpoint. See `Parser::Parse_Breakpoint()` in
+    `source/parser/parser_tokenizer.cpp` for more details.
+  - When compiled in debug mode, POV-Ray for Windows will now make do with
+    the release version of the editor DLLs if it can't find the debug version.
+  - A new version of the Git pre-commit hook is available; please, copy
+    `pre-commit` from `tools/git/hooks/` to `.git/hooks/` in your local
+    repository.
+  - To simplify version number housekeeping, the file `unix/VERSION` is now
+    created on the fly by the `unix/prebuild.sh` script, and has been dropped
+    from the repository. To retrieve version information from the source
+    package, use one of the new `get-source-version.*` scripts provided in
+    `tools/unix/` and `tools/windows/`, respectively.
+  - To simplify creating reproducible builds, the Unix build process has been
+    amended to compile and link source files in a well-defined order.
 
 Other Noteworthy
 ----------------
 
+  - During alpha development phase, POV-Ray v3.8.0-alpha for Windows will
+    piggypack on an existing v3.7 installation to allow for raw binary
+    distribution.
   - The source code now requires a C++11-compliant compiler.
   - The Unix build process now officially requires Autoconf 2.68 or later.
   - Added `--generation` command-line switch to POV-Ray for Unix, which will
     cause POV-Ray to print its abbreviated version number to standard output.
-  - To simplify version number housekeeping, the file `unix/VERSION` is now
-    created on the fly by the `unix/prebuild.sh` script, and has been dropped
-    from the repository. To retrieve version information from the source
-    package, use one of the new `get-source-version.*` scripts provided in
-    `tools/unix/` and `tools/windows/`, respectively.
   - The `unix/prebuild.sh` script can now be run from the main directory; it is
     no longer necessary to change to the unix directory first.
+  - The `./configure` script can now be run without the `COMPILED_BY=...`
+    option. In this case it defaults to `$USER <no contact address>`, where
+    `$USER` is your login name.
 
 
 Changes between 3.7.1-beta.9 and 3.7.1-rc.1

distribution/include/functions.inc

@@ -163,7 +163,12 @@
     // 2. y scale (inverse) 
     // 3. z scale (inverse)
 
-#declare f_enneper = function { internal(18) }
+#if (Functions_Inc_Temp < 3.8)
+    #declare deprecated once "f_enneper was broken prior to v3.8; results will most likely differ."
+             f_enneper = function { internal(18) }
+#else
+    #declare f_enneper = function { internal(18) }
+#end
 // Parameters: x, y, z
     // One extra parameter required: 
     // 1. Field strength

platform/unix/syspovtimer.cpp

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 /// @parblock
 ///
 /// Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer ('POV-Ray') version 3.8.
-/// Copyright 1991-2017 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.
+/// Copyright 1991-2018 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.
 ///
 /// POV-Ray is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 /// it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ void Delay(unsigned int msec)
     timespec ts;
     ts.tv_sec = msec / 1000;
     ts.tv_nsec = (POV_ULONG) (1000000) * (msec % 1000);
-    nanosleep(&ts, NULL);
+    nanosleep(&ts, nullptr);
 #elif defined(HAVE_USLEEP)
     POV_ASSERT(msec < 1000); // On some systems, usleep() does not support sleeping for 1 second or more.
     usleep (msec * (useconds_t)1000);
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static inline bool GettimeofdayMillisec(POV_ULONG& result)
 {
 #if defined(HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY)
     struct timeval tv;  // seconds + microseconds since
-    bool success = (gettimeofday(&tv, NULL) == 0);
+    bool success = (gettimeofday(&tv, nullptr) == 0);
     if (success)
         result = static_cast<POV_ULONG>(tv.tv_sec)  *1000
                + static_cast<POV_ULONG>(tv.tv_usec) /1000;

platform/windows/syspovtimer.cpp

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 /// @parblock
 ///
 /// Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer ('POV-Ray') version 3.8.
-/// Copyright 1991-2017 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.
+/// Copyright 1991-2018 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.
 ///
 /// POV-Ray is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 /// it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Timer::Timer () :
     // TODO - sources on the internet indicate that GetThreadTimes() and GetProcessTimes() have been
     //        around as early as NT 3.1. Is there a reason we're only making use of it in NT 4.0 and
     //        later Windows versions?
-    mThreadHandle (NULL),
+    mThreadHandle (nullptr),
     mCPUTimeSupported (WindowsVersionDetector().IsNTVersion (4,0))
 {
     if (mCPUTimeSupported)
@@ -74,15 +74,15 @@ Timer::Timer () :
                               &mThreadHandle, 0, TRUE, DUPLICATE_SAME_ACCESS))
         {
             POV_ASSERT (false);
-            mThreadHandle = NULL;
+            mThreadHandle = nullptr;
         }
     }
     Reset ();
 }
 
 Timer::~Timer ()
 {
-    if (mThreadHandle != NULL)
+    if (mThreadHandle != nullptr)
         CloseHandle (mThreadHandle);
 }
 

platform/x86/cpuid.cpp

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 /// @parblock
 ///
 /// Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer ('POV-Ray') version 3.8.
-/// Copyright 1991-2017 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.
+/// Copyright 1991-2018 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.
 ///
 /// POV-Ray is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 /// it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ CPUVendorInfo gCPUVendorInfo[] = {
     { kCPUVendor_VM,            "VMwareVMware" },   // VMWare
     { kCPUVendor_VM,            "XenVMMXenVMM" },   // Xen HVM
     // End of list.
-    { kCPUVendor_Unrecognized,  NULL }
+    { kCPUVendor_Unrecognized,  nullptr }
 };
 
 struct CPUIDInfo
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ CPUIDInfo::CPUIDInfo() :
     std::memcpy(vendor + 4, &info[CPUID_EDX], 4);
     std::memcpy(vendor + 8, &info[CPUID_ECX], 4);
     vendor[12] = '\0';
-    for (CPUVendorInfo* p = gCPUVendorInfo; p->cpuidString != NULL; ++p)
+    for (CPUVendorInfo* p = gCPUVendorInfo; p->cpuidString != nullptr; ++p)
     {
         if (strcmp(vendor, p->cpuidString) == 0)
         {

platform/x86/optimizednoise.cpp

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 /// @parblock
 ///
 /// Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer ('POV-Ray') version 3.8.
-/// Copyright 1991-2017 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.
+/// Copyright 1991-2018 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.
 ///
 /// POV-Ray is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 /// it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ OptimizedNoiseInfo gaOptimizedNoiseInfo[] = {
         AVXFMA4DNoise,              // dNoise,
         &kAVXFMA4NoiseEnabled,      // enabled,
         AVXFMA4Supported,           // supported,
-        NULL,                       // recommended,
-        NULL                        // init
+        nullptr,                    // recommended,
+        nullptr                     // init
     },
 #endif
 #ifdef TRY_OPTIMIZED_NOISE_AVX
@@ -116,12 +116,12 @@ OptimizedNoiseInfo gaOptimizedNoiseInfo[] = {
         AVXPortableDNoise,          // dNoise,
         &kAVXPortableNoiseEnabled,  // enabled,
         AVXSupported,               // supported,
-        NULL,                       // recommended,
-        NULL                        // init
+        nullptr,                    // recommended,
+        nullptr                     // init
     },
 #endif
     // End-of-list entry.
-    { NULL }
+    { nullptr }
 };
 
 }