[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #33947] plot gives out of memory error with some data on Fedora 15

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                 Summary: plot gives out of memory error with some data on
Fedora 15
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Fri 05 Aug 2011 05:21:18 AM UTC
                Category: Plotting
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Crash
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Mike Reid
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.2.0
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

Plotting certain data gives me an out of memory error. It depends on the range
and the details of the data, i.e. only crashes for particular numbers.  

Using Fedora 15 distribution. 

See example below. 

Mike
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$ octave
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warning: dispatch is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of
Octave; please use classes instead
warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.0.9/erfcx.m shadows a
built-in function
octave:1> x = 0.1:0.1:1;
octave:2> y = 0.043 * x.^0.36;
octave:3> plot(x,y);
error: memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of Octave's
index type -- trying to return to prompt
octave:3> 
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