[gt-users] range assertion failed

[Sascha Steinbiss]

On 01/14/2010 12:17 AM, Brent Pedersen wrote:
[...]
>> Assertion failed: (range->start <= range->end), function
>> gt_range_length, file src/core/range.c, line 186.
[...]
> i figured this out. it was underflow, not overflow. i was calling
> get_features_in_range()
> with a start less than zero. and since it was a u_long, it didn't fail
> until the assertion in C, where it
> found start < stop.

Ah, okay. So I guesss it couldn't hurt to check for negative positions
in ranges too. I will look into how I could modify the code in a way
that an exception is thrown when a Range contains a negative position.

> -b
Thanks for the report,
Sascha

P.S.: Strange that the sending to the mailing list seemed to delay my
last mail... it was posted well before your reply.

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