Re: seg fault during save quit restart and load sequence

[Robert Patterson]

> > I want to perform some calculations and save my octave state so I can
> > come back and analyse my data later.  As a very simple test I tried
> > 
> > octave:1> v = 1:5;
> > octave:2> save -text test.txt
> > octave:3> quit
> > 
> > bash> octave
> > octave:1> load -text test.txt
> > 
> > At which point I get a segfault.  A fuller copy of the two octave
> > sessions are shown below.  My problem seems similar to the following
> > nabble post, to which I did not find any follow up.
> > http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Seg-fault-crash-when-loading-a-saved-va
> > riable-file-tt1670463.html#none
> > 
> > [snip]
> 
> I made the same test with 3.2.4 on linux x86_64 and get no segfault, is it an 
> option for you to update to 3.2.4 (which is the latest stable)?

Further testing shows that the problem does not occur with octave 3.0.3
(on Fedora 10 x86_64) or 3.2.4 (local build on Fedora 12 x86_64), but I
can still reproduce the problem with 3.2.3 (on Fedora 12 x86_64).
Something odd seems to have happened with 3.2.3.

Robert