From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Jan  4 09:59:36 2001
Subject: empty matrix bug in octave-2.1.32 under yellow dog linux (powerpc) 
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: a dot s dot hodel at Eng dot Auburn dot EDU
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 09:59:24 -0600

On  3-Jan-2001, A Scottedward Hodel <hodelas at home dot com> wrote:

| Bug report for Octave 2.1.32 configured for %OCTAVE_CANONICAL_HOST_TYPE%
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
| using cvs archive: inclusion of empty matrix in list results in seg fault.
| 
| Repeat-By:
| ---------
| 
| octave:1> x = []
| x = [](0x0)
| octave:2> xx = [x, 1]
| warning: panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
| attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...                                           
| save to `octave-core' complete
| Segmentation fault (core dumped)
| 
| in gdb:
| 
| octave:1> x=[];
| octave:2> xx=[x,1];
| warning:
| Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
| 0xf8a8cc4 in strlen () at soinit.c:59
| 59      soinit.c: No such file or directory.
| Current language:  auto; currently c

Hmm.  I can't reproduce this problem with my current sources.

Can you get a traceback?  Have you upgraded libraries lately?

jwe



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