problems with `nBestGenomes'

[Thomas Binder]

Hi!

Im having serious troubles using a value other than `1' for the nBestGenomes 
parameter of the GA class.

Note that this is not (probably not?) directly related to a problem I posted 
last week (multi-threading issues ...).

The behaviour is that the objective function seems to be called with a 
non-initialized (or not properly initialized) genome. This, in turn, results in 
a request for a parameter set which is NOT within the bounds specified in the 
allele set.

The violation seems to occur in the method:

	void updateBestIndividual(const GAPopulation & pop, GABoolean flag)

of the GAStatistics class.


The attached program demonstrates this behaviour. 

I don't think the problem is specific to a certain compiler or operating system. 
I tried g++ 2.95.2 on RH-6.1 and CXX-6.0 on Tru64 UNIX, there is absolutely no 
difference.

Any clues what's wrong here?


best regards,
Tom
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