From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jan 22 21:03:24 2003
Subject: int2str(x) locks if x==0 et. al.
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Paul Gammans <paul at computer-surgery dot co dot uk>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:03:11 -0600

On 17-Jan-2003, Paul Gammans <paul at computer-surgery dot co dot uk> wrote:

| -----------
| Bug report for Octave 2.1.43 configured for i386-pc-linux-gnu
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
|    *1 If you call the function int2str with the value 0 is int2str(0)
|       the function never return's and locks solid.
| 
|    *2 Passing the value inf of -inf or large numbers returns -2147483648
| 
|    *3 Passing the value Nan also locked.
| 
|    *  Theses where cause by the creation of an invalid fmt string being
|       passed to sprintf. see seperate bug report
| 
|    *4 For Matlab compatablity we should returns NaN and Inf and -Inf for
|       valuse Nan and Inf and -Inf respectivly and get very confused
|       for number > 2147483647 or < -2147483647.

I fixed this, but using a different method.  The changes are checked
in to CVS now.

Is the following behavior compatible enough?

  octave:1> int2str ([0, Inf, -Inf, NaN, 123456, 2e10]')
  ans =

	      0
	    Inf
	   -Inf
	    NaN
	 123456
    -2147483648


jwe



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