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Changes that were made in August 2002.
Note that this was based on a 7.3 development version and changes may not
directly work with earlier versions.
I fixed a bug in cubescan.pl that prevented signed numbers with no digits
before a decimal point from being accepted. This was submitted as a separate
patch and may already be applied.
I reported but did not fix a potential buffer overrun problem in cube_yyerror
in cubeparse.y.
cube_inter should really return NULL if the two cubes don't overlap. However
this requires changing to the new calling sequence and I don't know enough
about how to do it to make the change.
I changed all floats to doubles except for g_cube_penalty which I don't
think can be changed to return double. This might cause the penalty to
overflow sooner than one might expect, but overflow could have happened
even with floats.
I changed the output format (in cube_out) to use %.16g instead of %g, since the
default is only 6 digits of precision.
I changed all of the functions declared with (isstrict) to use the current
method of declaring this.
I changed all of the externally visible functions to be immutable which
they are. I don't think this matters for the gist functions and didn't
try to declare them immutable in case there was something tricky about them
that I don't understand.
I changed the regression tests to use some larger exponents to test output
in exponential form. 1e7 was too small for this.
I added some regression tests to check for 16 digits of precision. This
may or may not be a good idea.
I got rid of the swap_corners function. It created scratch boxes that
were iterated through and deleted. This is slower than just getting the
larger or smaller coordinate as needed, since swap_corners was doing the
same thing with the overhead of a function call and memory allocation.
I added memset calls to zero out newly allocated NDBOXes as the documentation
on functions indicates should be done.
I got rid of a call to cube_same in cube_lt and cube_gt since the test
was redundant with other checks being made. The call to cube_same would
only be faster if most of the time you were comparing equivalent cubes.
In cube_lt and cube_gt, the second (UR) for loop for comparing
extra coordinates to 0 had the wrong range.
Note that the cube_distance function wasn't mentioned in the README.cube file.
I added regression tests for the cube_distance function.
I added the following new functions:
cube
cube_dim
cube_ll_coord
cube_ur_coord
cube_is_point
cube_enlarge
cube takes text input and returns a cube. This is useful for making cubes
from computed strings.
cube_dim returns the number of dimensions stored in the the data structure
for a cube. This is useful for constraints on the dimensions of a cube.
cube_ll_coord returns the nth coordinate value for the lower left corner
of a cube. This is useful for doing coordinate transformations.
cube_ur_coord returns the nth coordinate value for the upper right corner
of a cube. This is useful for doing coordinate transformations.
cube_is_point returns true if a cube is also a point. This is true when the
two defining corners are the same.
cube_enlarge increases the size of a cube by a specified radius in at least
n dimensions. If the radius is negative the box is shrunk instead. This
is useful for creating bounding boxes around a point for searching for
nearby points. All defined dimensions are changed by the radius. If n
is greater than the number of defined dimensions and the cube is being
increased (r >= 0) then 0 is used as the base for the extra coordinates.
LL coordinates are decreased by r and UR coordinates are increased by r. If a
LL coordinate is increased to larger than the corresponding UR coordinate
(this can only happen when r < 0) than both coordinates are set to their
average.
I added regression tests for the new functions.
I added documentation for cube_distance and the new functions to README.cube
as well as making a few other minor changes.
Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>