[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #38840] glibc malloc error

[John W. Eaton]

Update of bug #38840 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Fixed                  
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

The octave-core file is not a core dump file.  It contains the top-level
Octave workspace in a format that Octave can load so that you might recover
work that you've done before the crash.

I can duplicate the crash with Octave 3.6.4, but I doubt that there will be
another 3.6.x release.

With the current sources I see:

octave-cli:1> function = f(a)
parse error:

  syntax error

>>> function = f(a)
             ^

octave-cli:1> function f(a)
> printf("%d", a)
> endfunction
octave-cli:2> f(42)
error: 'f' undefined near line 1 column 1


So the initial syntax error causes some trouble and apparently makes it
impossible to define a function at the command line.  Hmm.

I checked in the following change.

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/b678d2d10e53

This patch will not apply to the stable branch (3.6.x) so if you want the fix,
you'll need to build the default development branch or wait for the next
release.


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