From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Dec 17 16:39:19 1998
Subject: Bus Error?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: heberf at calvin dot wustl dot edu
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:39:34 -0600 (CST)

On 17-Dec-1998, heberf at calvin dot wustl dot edu <heberf@calvin.wustl.edu> wrote:

| I wrote a .oct file called tzterm.oct and it compiled without error.  But
| when I try to run it I get an error which I don't know how to interpret.
| What is going on?
| 
| Octave, version 2.0.13 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6).
| Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998 John W. Eaton.
| This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
| For details, type `warranty'.
| 
| octave:1> load start
| octave:2> newr = tzterm(1,r0,kappa,theta,sigma,.0825,.08,lamu,laml);
| error: bus error -- stopping myself...
| attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
| save to `octave-core' complete
| 
| Bus error (core dumped)

I'd guess a bug in your code, but I can't be sure without seeing it.

jwe