Re: [Orekit Developers] Infinite loop in KeplerianOrbit#eMeSinE(E)

[Alessandro Vananti <alessandro.vananti@aiub.unibe.ch>]

Hi Evan,
well in fact I do not understand so well the code there....
I would prefer somebody else looks into it.

Alessandro

On 02/10/2017 02:20 PM, Evan Ward wrote:
> Hi Alessandro,
>
> Welcome to Orekit. I agree that any infinite loop is the code is a 
> bug, even for unexpected input. Would you be able to create a test 
> case and submit a patch to fix the issue?
>
> Best Regards,
> Evan
>
> On 02/09/2017 11:42 AM, alessandro.vananti@aiub.unibe.ch wrote:
> > I noticed that sometimes my code is hanging in an infinite loop.
> > I found out that if eMeSinE(E) is called with NaN as argument then it 
> > never
> > returns.
> > In my code the NaN is caused by an eccentricity e < -1 that I can easily
> > check. (In the application I need to use e < 0 even if it is in 
> > theory not
> > possible!)
> > However the hanging behaviour is a bit misleading. Perhaps the method 
> > should
> > throw an exception.
> >
> > Alessandro