Telescope control sends zero right ascension on Intel Macs

Bug #544250 reported by Bogdan Marinov
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Stellarium
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Bug Description

On Intel Macs, the telescope control feature sends RA=0 for objects that have RA between 12 and 24. The problem is avoided by running Stellarium through Rosetta, which forces the use of the PPC executable in the universal binary.

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Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab) wrote :

The issue appears to be caused by differences in handling floating point arithmetic between Windows/Linux/PPC Macs and Intel Macs (and by the smart-but-error-prone way the code converted negative RA values to integer values).

David Hulse identified the code that causes the problem and proposed a solution. It has been committed to Stellarium's code repository at SourceForge as revision 6025:
http://stellarium.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/stellarium?view=rev&revision=6025

Changed in stellarium:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in stellarium:
milestone: none → 0.10.5
Changed in stellarium:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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