Re: Debugging warnings

[Søren Hauberg]

tir, 11 07 2006 kl. 08:26 -0500, skrev Quentin Spencer:
> I'm working on getting octave-forge-2006.07.09 working with 
> octave-2.9.6. When I make a plot and try creating a legend, I'm getting 
> some warnings that I don't understand, and can't figure out what is 
> causing them. The test commands are:
> 
> octave:1> plot(1:10);
> octave:2> legend('text');
> warning: variable switch label
> warning: variable switch label
> warning: variable switch label
> warning: variable switch label
> 
> There are some other errors after this, but I've already found a fix for 
> them. The problem is the warnings. They don't give any information about 
> where in the code they are occuring, and printing debugging information 
> inside the function seems to suggest that this warning happens while the 
> function is being parsed but before anything is executed. So, what does 
> this mean and how can I get rid of it?
It's a minor bug. John posted a patch:
https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2006-July/000875.html

Søren