From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Dec 14 21:19:37 2000
Subject: Unidentified subject!
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Ikonen Teemu <teemu at esrf dot fr>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, teemu@amber7.esrf.fr
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:19:22 -0600

On 18-May-2000, Ikonen Teemu <teemu at esrf dot fr> wrote:

| To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
| Cc: teemu
| Subject: Interpreter crash with the abuse of \ operator
| 
| Bug report for Octave 2.1.30 configured for %OCTAVE_CONF_CANONICAL_HOST_TYPE%
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
| Using the left-division operator with two longish row-vectors results 
| in a segfault and the crash of the interpreter.
| 
| Repeat-By:
| ---------
| 
| octave:1> x = linspace(0,2, 60);
| octave:2> A = sin(x);
| octave:3> y = A;
| octave:4> a = A\y;
| 
| Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
| 0x831c139 in dgemm_ () at oct-time.cc:292
| oct-time.cc:292: No such file or directory.
| (gdb) backtrace
| #0  0x831c139 in dgemm_ () at oct-time.cc:292
| #1  0x832bee7 in dgelss_ () at oct-time.cc:292

Sorry for the long delay.

I think this problem should now be fixed in the current CVS sources.

Thanks,

jwe




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