From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Feb  3 12:43:07 2004
Subject: Re: str2mat causes segmetation fault
From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dmitri at unm dot edu>
To: Johan Silen <silen at yes dot mh dot fmi dot fi>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 11:41:38 -0700

Johan Silen wrote:
> To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
> Cc: silen
> Subject: str2mat causes segmetation fault
> 
> Bug report for Octave 2.1.53-2 configured for i386-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> Description:
> -----------
>    Simply call x=str2mat("xx") causes segmetation fault
> 
> Repeat-By:
> ---------
>       str2mat("xx")
> 

That looks like Debian packaging problem. Octave-2.1.53 built from
scratch on my machine does not have this problem:

[dima at tumbleweed dima]$ octave
GNU Octave, version 2.1.53 (i686-pc-linux-gnu).
Copyright (C) 2004 John W. Eaton.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html

Report bugs to <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> (but first, please read
http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).

octave:1> x=str2mat("xx")
x = xx
octave:2>

Sincerely,

Dmitri.



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