From owner-bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Nov 10 08:51:55 1995
Subject: fatal error with system function
From: "John C. Hermanson" <hermy at darcy dot cee dot wisc dot edu>
To: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 95 8:47:34 CST

To: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Subject: fatal error with system function 
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Bug report for Octave 1.1.0 configured for unknown

(Intel pentium with Next 3.3 Installed binaries using sh ./doinstall

Description:
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I cannot get system function to execute. The following is an example.

octave:1> a = system ("echo foo")
error: Bus error -- stopping myself...

Even the bug_report script doesn't fucntion properly. It uses the system
function. I have to copy this to another file to send it.

Configuration (please do not edit this section):
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uname output:     
Fortran compiler: 
FFLAGS:           -O
C compiler:       cc
CFLAGS:           -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -g -O
C++ compiler:     gcc
CXXFLAGS:         -DHAVE_CONFIG_H    -g
DEFS:

  -DOCTAVE_SOURCE=1 -DNPSOL_MISSING=1 -DQPSOL_MISSING=1 -DFSQP_MISSING=1
  -DHAVE_STRFTIME=1 -DSIZEOF_SHORT=2 -DSIZEOF_INT=4 -DSIZEOF_LONG=4
  -DIEEE_LITTLE_ENDIAN=1 -DHAVE_ALLOCA=1 -DF77_APPEND_UNDERSCORE=1
  -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_ASSERT_H=1 -DHAVE_FLOAT_H=1 -DHAVE_LIMITS_H=1
  -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_PWD_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1
  -DHAVE_VARARGS_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_UTSNAME_H=1
  -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_FCNTL_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H=1
  -DHAVE_SYS_DIR_H=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_TERMIOS_H=1
  -DHAVE_SETVBUF=1 -DHAVE_GETHOSTNAME=1 -DHAVE_BZERO=1 -DHAVE_BCOPY=1
  -DHAVE_RINDEX=1 -DHAVE_VFPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_STRCASECMP=1
  -DHAVE_STRNCASECMP=1 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE_ATEXIT=1 -DHAVE_MEMMOVE=1
  -DHAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY=1 -DHAVE_GETRUSAGE=1 -DHAVE_LIBM=1 -DHAVE_FINITE=1
  -DHAVE_ISNAN=1 -DHAVE_ISINF=1 -DHAVE_ERF=1 -DHAVE_ERFC=1 -DHAVE_LGAMMA=1
  -DRETSIGTYPE=void -DHAVE_SYS_SIGLIST=1

User-preferences (please do not edit this section):
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  EDITOR = "vi"
  IMAGEPATH = ".:/usr/local/lib/octave/1.1.0/imagelib//"
  INFO_FILE = "/usr/local/info/octave.info"
  LOADPATH = ".:/usr/local/lib/octave/site/oct/unknown//:/usr/local/lib/octave/site/m//:/usr/local/lib/octave/1.1.0/oct/unknown//:/usr/local/lib/octave/1.1.0/m//"
  OCTAVE_VERSION = "1.1.0"
  PAGER = "less -e"
  PS1 = "\\s:\\#> "
  PS2 = "> "
  automatic_replot = "false"
  whitespace_in_literal_matrix = ""
  default_save_format = "ascii"
  do_fortran_indexing = "false"
  empty_list_elements_ok = "warn"
  eps = 2.22045e-16
  gnuplot_binary = "gnuplot"
  ignore_function_time_stamp = "system"
  implicit_str_to_num_ok = "false"
  ok_to_lose_imaginary_part = "warn"
  output_max_field_width = 10
  output_precision = 5
  page_screen_output = "true"
  prefer_column_vectors = "true"
  prefer_zero_one_indexing = "false"
  print_answer_id_name = "true"
  print_empty_dimensions = "true"
  propagate_empty_matrices = "true"
  resize_on_range_error = "true"
  return_last_computed_value = "false"
  save_precision = 17
  silent_functions = "false"
  split_long_rows = "true"
  treat_neg_dim_as_zero = "false"
  warn_assign_as_truth_value = "true"
  warn_comma_in_global_decl = "true"
  warn_divide_by_zero = "true"

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  Thanks much --> John Hermanson