From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Nov 15 16:47:08 2003
Subject: parsing error/recursive call makes octave crash
From: "Csaba Szepesvari" <szcsaba at sztaki dot hu>
To: <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:02:48 -0600

I am using GNU Octave, version 2.1.50 (i686-pc-cygwin).
Consider the following .m file:
---ident.m ----------------------
y = ident(x)
y = x;
endfunction
---------------------------------
Note that the keyword function is missing from this
function file whose name is ident.m
As a result, I guess, octave enters into an indefinity recursive call
and crashes.
Maybe there should be a better way of handling this (detect stack overflow,
etc.).
Also, for a moment octave prints out something about a parsing error but it
crashes immediately.
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- Csaba
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Csaba Szepesvari
Computer and Automation Institute of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
13-17 Kende u.
Budapest, 1111
Hungary
email: szcsaba at sztaki dot hu
web: www.sztaki.hu/~szcsaba

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