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06:00 nerzhul hello, merging #9665 (trailing whitespaces fixed)
06:00 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/9665 -- Verify database connection on interval by nerzhul
06:01 nerzhul and #9674
06:01 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/9674 -- Fix parsing JSON with large integers by sfan5
06:09 nerzhul nice to see increasing activity and bugfixes :)
06:11 nerzhul sfan5: #9671 has been fixed and is ready for a last review
06:11 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/9671 -- Optimize get_object_inside_radius call by nerzhul
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08:13 nerzhul new MR for our build architecture: #9677
08:13 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/9677 -- Add an option to disable unittest build, & disable them on Docker build by nerzhul
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14:27 nerzhul finally merging #9066
14:27 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/9066 -- Android: add Android Studio support, completely redone build system and java part by MoNTE48
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15:10 sfan5 Termos19: hi
15:15 Termos19 do you read me?
15:15 sfan5 yes
15:18 sfan5 Termos19: I added some debug code locally to look at the collision calculations https://0x0.st/iQVi.txt
15:18 sfan5 the output there is from the same situation as the reproduction video, jumping in a corner and getting stuck in air
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15:19 sfan5 while the float calculations there are pretty close, they are not incorrect: 16155.000000 - 16139.000977 - 16.000000 = -0.000976999999693362 which is indeed less than 0
15:20 sfan5 so I think this is a red herring and the actual problem lies in the fact that the player is somehow allowed to get too close to the nodes
15:20 sfan5 thoughts?
15:21 Termos19 ok let me read the code
15:22 sfan5 it's basically just printing out the comparison that happens inside the if (.........) return COLLISION_AXIS_Y;
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15:27 Termos19 The problem I think is how we get this strange figure: 16139.000977. It's the sum of the object position (big number) and box extent (small number
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15:29 Termos19 that's where f32 usually go wrong. I provided an example in #9343 issue how that happens
15:29 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/9343 -- Collision various fixes by TheTermos
15:29 sfan5 since node extents are perfectly constant I'd assume the 0.000977 comes from the player position, right?
15:30 Termos19 I don't think so, many zeros and then something is usually fp precision error, it's probably a miscalculated whole number
15:31 sfan5 hm
15:32 Termos19 with that a big number only 3 decimal places are usable, what follows is precision noise
15:32 sfan5 then why not modify the checks from A - B - C < 0 to A - B - C < (-0.001f)
15:32 sfan5 would work, wouldn't it?
15:33 sfan5 hm, in fact isn't this what we had before with the "d" constant(?)
15:35 Termos19 no, that was different, worked on different principle, and d was more than quarter of a node originally.
15:35 sfan5 I see
15:36 p_gimeno switching to minkowski difference + raycasting is not an option at this point, I guess?
15:38 Termos19 As I mentioned, I have a version that creates a safety cushion between boxes, but maybe investigating that flag as well wouldn't hurt?
15:39 sfan5 yes
15:42 sfan5 where can I find that other version of the code btw?
15:42 Termos19 Nowhere online atm, I'm going to put it up on github
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15:49 Termos19 but here: https://github.com/TheTermos/minetest/blob/41dd0c290b09f923fe5cc1ac63bbd1dc17354388/src/collision.cpp
15:50 Termos19 there's that commented out part at line 86, that used to be it
15:53 Termos19 0.03 is about the error that can theoretically happen around 31000
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16:13 sfan5 I see
16:16 Termos19 anyway, this poor precision causes also other problems.
16:18 Termos19 should have been 64 bit
16:23 nerzhul sfan5 if you get time there is some PR to review :D
16:23 nerzhul #9671 is ready for integration
16:23 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/9671 -- Optimize get_object_inside_radius call by nerzhul
16:23 nerzhul #9676 needs review
16:23 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/9676 -- Fix GCC warning spam on ABI by nerzhul
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16:31 Termos19 so I'm going to make a new version just in case
16:31 Termos19 Too bad I cant test this stuff with different compilers
16:33 sfan5 most people use gcc so if -ffast-math breaks it there, that's what matters
16:33 rubenwardy that's what CI is for
16:34 sfan5 I don't think it's easy to reduce this into an unittest
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16:37 Krock well, floating point precision tests would be possible
16:41 p_gimeno fast math breaks many assumptions, http://www.formauri.es/personal/pgimeno/pastes/fast-math.c
16:43 p_gimeno that was causing #3943 too
16:43 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/3943 -- testStreamRead and testBufReader failures
16:44 Krock pretty sure I saw that just recently
16:44 sfan5 those aren't a problem though if you compare using abs(a-b) < 0.0001f instead of equality
16:44 Krock Test assertion failed: readF1000(is) == 53.534f
16:44 Krock at test_serialization.cpp:308
16:44 Krock still happening in current master
16:45 sfan5 maybe we really should just disable -ffast-math
16:45 nerzhul i think it's better, we don't need a such optimization and stop loosing time on it. In 2017 we were already discussion about this
16:46 rubenwardy comparing using  abs(a-b) < 0.0001f   is the correct way to compare floats
16:46 p_gimeno Krock: yeah I was sceptical it was fixed :)
16:47 p_gimeno and no, that's not the correct way to compare floats, it's not how you compare them in Lua and it should not how you compare them in proper code
16:47 p_gimeno should not be*
16:48 rubenwardy it's how I compare them in Lua \o/
16:48 p_gimeno it's how you compare them when you have no guarantees about the correctness of the underlying operations
16:48 sfan5 do you ever have that?
16:48 p_gimeno do you mean in Lua you do: if math.abs(index - 1) < 0.0001 then ... instead of: if index == 1 then ... ?
16:49 rubenwardy no
16:49 rubenwardy https://gitlab.com/rubenwardy/conquer/-/blob/master/tests/utils_spec.lua#L22
16:50 p_gimeno sfan5: yes, IEEE758 guarantees correct rounding for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square root and fmaf/fma, and GCC (and other compilers) has modes to switch it on
16:50 p_gimeno but most of the time, in GCC you switch off fast-math and get that
16:51 sfan5 ok but 10/1000 will still not equal 10 * 0.0001, will it?
16:52 p_gimeno sfan5: correct
16:53 sfan5 well * 0.001 but I think you get what I mean
16:53 p_gimeno but division will perform the former without optimizing to the latter
16:53 sfan5 yes that's one of the things -ffast-math enables
16:53 sfan5 but my point is
16:53 sfan5 in real-world mathematics those two are definitely equal
16:54 sfan5 so you still end up with a need to do "fuzzy" equality comparison
16:54 p_gimeno you don't need to do range comparisons in many cases if you know what you're doing
16:54 p_gimeno that unit test is one example
16:55 p_gimeno but with -ffast-math you lose the guarantees that allow you to know what you're doing
16:55 p_gimeno this is an essay on how it behaves and what you can expect from it: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
16:56 p_gimeno one of the guarantees you have with correct rounding is that division of a number by itself will give 1, not e.g. 1.000001
16:56 p_gimeno and that is important in many cases
16:57 nerzhul sfan5: #9676 fixed
16:57 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/9676 -- Fix GCC warning spam on ABI by nerzhul
17:01 sfan5 nerzhul: with which gcc version did you see the Wabi warnings?
17:01 nerzhul 9 and 8
17:02 sfan5 right
17:07 sfan5 hm actually
17:07 sfan5 I have no idea which -Wabi= we should be using anyway
17:08 sfan5 https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C_002b_002b-Dialect-Options.html
17:08 sfan5 -Wabi=8 for compatibility with 4.9? why at all?
17:08 rubenwardy should we be using that check? We're not a library, we don't care about consistent ABIs
17:08 Termos19 anyway, I'd try getting rid of the flag if that's possible, otherwise I have the modification so we're going to be ok.
17:09 sfan5 rubenwardy: right that's what I was thinking
17:09 nerzhul we should use 11 to be c++ 1 compliant, 8 is not complete if i remember
17:10 rubenwardy is it about c++ standards compliance or abi stability?
17:10 rubenwardy I've not read the docs
17:11 sfan5 > Warn when G++ it generates code that is probably not compatible with the vendor-neutral C++ ABI
17:11 sfan5 so does that matter for linking to shared libraries? or only if you expose functions yourself?
17:11 sfan5 and does it even matter at all when distros use *only* gcc or *only* clang?
17:16 sfan5 nerzhul: can you change it to -Wabi=7 and see if the CI shows any warnings?
17:23 Termos19 sfan, in that debug, it could be helpful to know what the input was (the boxes and speed)
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17:34 nerzhul sfan5 sounds some sorcery no ? when the flag is not present gcc asked me to set explicitely abi=11
17:45 sfan5 that's just an example from the gcc devs
17:45 sfan5 Termos19: i'll try to print those too
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17:55 sfan5 Termos19: https://0x0.st/iQWD.txt
17:56 rubenwardy What's this syntax called? I've not seen it before
17:56 rubenwardy https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/9668/files#diff-fc5bd7f599797bce163af517e57a314cR1998
17:56 rubenwardy !title
17:56 ShadowBot Collision information for Lua entities by sfan5 · Pull Request #9668 · minetest/minetest · GitHub
17:56 rubenwardy named elements?
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17:56 rubenwardy static const char *collision_type_str[] = { [COLLISION_NODE] = "node", [COLLISION_OBJECT] = "object",  }
17:57 sfan5 https://stackoverflow.com/a/17581108
17:57 rubenwardy thanks
17:57 sfan5 " C++ doesn't support the same behaviour." ?
17:57 rubenwardy uh oh
17:59 sfan5 none of the compilers on CI had anything to say about it
18:06 nerzhul quite old answer, 2013
18:06 sfan5 https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html#Designated-Inits
18:07 sfan5 even gcc documentation says you can't do this in C++ (not even as an extension)
18:07 sfan5 but this is evidently wrong
18:08 nerzhul gcc devs: we don't know how our compiler works, but it works like we wanted to od
18:08 nerzhul do*
18:09 nerzhul sfan5 you approved & unapproved my abi PR, what do you want more ? i tend to respect the parameter asked by gcc with the value it mentioned than trying another obscure value
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18:10 sfan5 it's unclear whether -Wabi makes any sense for Minetest at all and -Wabi=11 is still just an example in gcc's warning
18:10 nerzhul the -Wabi was for old clang compiler if i remember, and the -Wabi=11 is just for gcc 7 and upper
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18:38 sfan5 oh god the item entities collision performs horribly if you leave -ffast-math enabled
18:42 DS-minetest would it be possible to force-disable -ffast-math on parts of the code?
18:43 sfan5 it sure would but why not disable it globally then?
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18:54 sfan5 rubenwardy: 30 seconds of -ffast-math (or insufficient fp comparisons, depending on your viewpoint) https://0x0.st/iQ4J.mp4
18:55 Termos19 Thanks sfan, I'll post on github if I find something interesting
18:55 sfan5 sure
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20:17 Termos19 unfortunately that debug isn't very useful, all calculations seem correct, the box is in fact in collision with y plane. the problem occured earlier when it clipped along x.
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20:50 sfan5 p_gimeno: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/9682
21:24 Termos19 axisallignedcollision seems to works correctly, the problem with fast math occurs outside in collisionmovesimple. the < 0 comparison is correct.
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