From bug-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Wed Nov 10 05:58:01 1993
Subject: octave bug report
From: Wolfgang Rohrmoser <rohr at pdv3 dot fmr dot maschinenbau dot th-darmstadt dot de>
To: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Cc: rohr at pdv3 dot fmr dot maschinenbau dot th-darmstadt dot de
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 12:57:46 +0100


We started using octave on a sun3/160 running SUNOS4.1.1:

While learning octave I found today two bugs causing fatal signals:

BUG1:

Octave, version 0.79.  Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.

octave:1> function y=f(a,b)
> disp(a)
> b(1)=1
> y=a+b
> endfunction
octave:2> f(1,2)
1
b = 1
y = 2
ans = 2
octave:3> f(1)
1
error: caught SIGSEGV -- stopping myself...


BUG2:

Octave, version 0.79.  Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.

octave:1>  c(1:100)=1
panic: impossible state reached in file `tree-const.cc' at line 1561
error: caught SIGIOT -- stopping myself...


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* Wolfgang Rohrmoser
* Technical University of Darmstadt 
* Institute for Flight Mechanics and Control Theory
* Petersenstrasse 30
* 64287  Darmstadt (germany)
* Tel:   6151 163090
* FAX:   6151 165434
* Email: rohr at pdv3 dot fmr dot maschinenbau dot th-darmstadt dot de
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