From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed May 27 00:03:53 1998
Subject: octave 2.0.12 and 2.0.13 binaries for cygwin32 on nt
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: kullstj < at res dot raytheon dot com@nmc dot ed dot ray dot com>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:00:47 -0500 (CDT)

On 26-May-1998, kullstj < at res dot raytheon dot com@nmc dot ed dot ray dot com> wrote:

| i have tried upgrading to octave 2.0.12 and octave 2.0.13 but
| keep getting run time errors.  (retyping the output - damn microsoft
| for lack of cut-n-paste from command terms) here is what i get:
| 
| (C:\octave\bin\octave.bin 1000) Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
| Error: segmentation violation -- stopping myself...
| attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
| save to `octave-core' complete
| 
| it doesn't seem to matter what i run, just that i run for a bit
| (a few active seconds).

I've not had problems like this, but I don't use Octave under Windows
NT/95 very much (just enough to see that it runs).

| if i have structs declared (e.g., a.a = 3; a.b = 4;) i get a complaint
| from save about unknown type `struct' when octave is saving to the
| core file.

The save function doesn't support structs yet, so that's the reason
you're seeing the warning.

| i am using cygwin32 b19.1 (b19 w/ the b19.1 cygwin32.dll update)
| and have installed mumit khan's binary of egcs-1.0.2.

FWIW, I've been using a copy of egcs-1.0.2 that I built myself to
cross-compile Octave on a Linux system.

jwe