From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Sep 12 15:31:32 1995
Subject: Mysterious crash
From: John Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Eyal Doron <doron at goofy dot mpi-hd dot mpg dot de>
Cc: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 15:30:46 -0500

Eyal Doron <doron at goofy dot mpi-hd dot mpg dot de> wrote:

: Octave crashes after assignments of zeros into a complex vector.
: 
: Repeat-By:
: ---------
:
: octave:1> alph=rand(197,1)+I*rand(197,1);alph(198-(1:8))=zeros(8,1);
: octave:2> beta=abs(alph);
: error: Floating point exception -- stopping myself...

This bug seems to be fixed in my current sources.

Thanks,

jwe