From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Dec 15 16:00:39 2000
Subject: Unidentified subject!
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Steve Sullivan <sullivan at Mathcom dot COM>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:00:19 -0600

On 15-Dec-2000, Steve Sullivan <sullivan at Mathcom dot COM> wrote:

| To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
| Cc: sullivan
| Subject: binary ctl- at  embedded before the numeric output
| 
| Bug report for Octave 2.1.32 configured for %OCTAVE_CANONICAL_HOST_TYPE%
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
| 
| First, many thanks for an excellent tool: I use Octave daily!
| 
| I'm testing 2.1.32, and notice that sometimes the output has
| a binary ctl- at  embedded before the numeric output.
| While many viewing programs like "less" don't show the ctl- at ,
| when I process the Octave output by other programs
| they choke.

I think this is a bug in the C++ or C library, not Octave.  Here is a
simple C++ program that demonstrates the bug:

#include <iomanip>
#include <iostream>

int
main (void)
{
  cout << setw (11) << setprecision (4);
  cout.flags (ios::scientific);
  cout << 1.23456789 << endl;
  return 0;
}

It seems that when there is extra room for the sign, it is set to '\0'
instead of ' '.

I've been meaning to report this problem, but I keep forgetting.  Can
someone please submit a bug report for it to the GNU libc maintainers?

Thanks,

jwe



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