From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Nov 15 18:01:03 2003
Subject: parsing error/recursive call makes octave crash
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: <Csaba dot Szepesvari at sztaki dot hu>
cc: bug-octave mailing list <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 18:00:58 -0600

On 15-Nov-2003, Csaba Szepesvari <szcsaba at sztaki dot hu> wrote:

| 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.

I cannot seem to reproduce the crash.  What is the value of x in the
workspace when you invoke this script?  Is there any other function or
script called ident that is defined before you call it?

jwe



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