From bug-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Fri Dec 16 06:41:56 1994
Subject: Bug in Octave for Alpha OSF1.3
From: Jochen Mueller <joe at mickey dot mpi-hd dot mpg dot de>
To: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 13:41:46 +0100

I have been trying out Octave 1.0, and I have a serious problem with
the binaries for Dec Alpha OSF1.3. The program crashes whenever a
function returns more than one variable. A sample session is the
following:  
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minnie:/usr/var/tmp/octave/bin# octave
Octave, version 1.0.  Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994 John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.

octave:1>  [a, l]=sort([3 2 4 1])
inst fault=4, status word=8, pc=41d31c
error: caught SIGILL -- stopping myself...
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This also happens with eig, svd, and so on, whenever more than one
output variable is requested. It does NOT happen if only one output
variable is requested.

I have also tried the binaries for Linux. There the bug does not
appear. 

Regards,
    Jochen