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  • From: "Laurent Rineau (CGAL/GeometryFactory)" <>
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  • Subject: Re: [cgal-discuss] Problem when changing from inexact to exact kernel
  • Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:56:11 +0100
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Le Wednesday, February 15, 2017 3:15:01 PM CET Thomas Holzmann a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I have a CGAL::Triangulation_3, which I manually created (just converted
> a given triangulation to a CGAL data structure) and which is valid (
> checked with triangulation.is_valid()). I'm currently using
> Exact_predicates_inexact_constructions_kernel, but I'm having problems
> when making various geometric operation afterwards. Therefore, I want to
> change to Exact_predicates_exact_constructions_kernel.
>
> However, after changing the kernel, the conversion back to a double
> representation doesn't work anymore, ie.
>
> double x = CGAL::to_double(vertex->point().x());
> ...
>
> results in a segmentation fault sometimes. It doesn't happen for all
> vertices, just for some.

Could it be that you use parallel threads working both on such CGAL exact
points? The kernel `Exact_predicates_exact_constructions_kernel` is not
thread-safe as far as I know.

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Laurent Rineau, PhD
R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory http://www.geometryfactory.com/
Release Manager of the CGAL Project http://www.cgal.org/




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