From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Feb 12 16:03:45 1998
Subject: Compiling octave on a ppc
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: saludes at cvc dot uab dot es (Saludes)
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:04:06 -0600

On 12-Feb-1998, Saludes <saludes at cvc dot uab dot es> wrote:

| I'm trying to get a running octave on a PowerMac 7600/132.
| Compilation runs ok (with warnings) and octave works ok as far as I 
| can see;
| But in some particular expressions, it exits without complaint after giving
| the right answer and displaying the next prompt.
| I think this happens when computing an expression involving a binary operator
| on two *literal numerics or chars*. A workaround is to assign a literal to a variable and then
| compute using this variable.
| 
| I've attached below some examples and the system configuration.
| Looking forward to your suggestions,

I have no way of debugging this.  You'll have to find some way to
figure out how and why Octave exits.

Since it seems to print the next prompt before exiting, you might
start by running Octave under a debugger and setting a breakpoint in
octave_gets (defined in src/input.cc) and seeing what happens as you
step through the function.  Does it exit in the call to readline?

jwe