From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Nov  7 08:37:03 2002
Subject: Re: printf crash
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 08:37:01 -0600

On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 01:18 PM, Per Persson wrote:

> I'm experiencing a crash on every attempt to use any of printf, 
> sprintf, fprintf.
> Has anyone seen that or is it just here?
> octave CVS as of today (with some of my mods, none of which _should_ 

We found that this was due to the following define in src/cutils.c:

  #if defined __GNUC__ && __GNUC__ >= 3
  #define HAVE_C99_VSNPRINTF 1
  #endif

If you experience the crash, delete these lines and recompile.  I'm
looking for a good autoconf macro to fix this problem properly.

jwe



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