From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Jan 19 09:36:35 1999
Subject: Multiplication of ColumnVector by RowVector in liboctave gets an error.
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Samsung Lim <slim at inha dot ac dot kr>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:36:47 -0600 (CST)

On 19-Jan-1999, Samsung Lim <slim at inha dot ac dot kr> wrote:

| Bug report for Octave 2.0.13 configured for sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
|  When the liboctave library is used, the muliplication of a
|  column vector by a row vector gets an error unless two vectors have
|  the same dimensions. (Of course, it doesn't happen in octave,
|  though). I think this is due to the definition of the
|  multiplication in the "liboctave/dMatrix.cc". The following is the
|  original source code. It checks if "len != a_len", but why?

I deleted the check.

Thanks,

jwe