Sunday 19 May 2013

Compiler Bug
2013-05-19

My weather system has had difficulty in recent days with delivering regional stats.  The capture program was to read through a list of .ini data and process accordingly.  Unfortunately, it was running about five iterations and then crapping out.

Turns out it was a compiler bug.


At times, it just worked; at other times, it wouldn't work at all.  The compiler itself was generating bad code.


In the end, I unravelled the loop, so to speak:  the program now accepts command-line parameters and iterates just once for each location.  It works!


Now I can go back to figuring out why the forecast isn't appearing for CTO.


-Bill