Re: sparse functions abort instead of memory exhausted

[marco atzeri]

On 1/5/2012 8:08 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:55 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>
> > On  5-Jan-2012, John W. Eaton wrote:
> >
> > | On  5-Jan-2012, marco atzeri wrote:
> > |
> > | | on cygwin with latest tip
> > |
> > | Please give the output of "hg id".  Mercurial archives have a single
> > | "tip" revision, but that might not be on the branch you are using.
> > | Specifying the exact changeset ID uniquely identifies what sources
> > | you are using.
> > |
> > | | on several sparse functions I noticed
> > | |
> > | | octave:19>  sprand(1e5,1e5,.1)
> > | | panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
> > | | attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> > | | save to `octave-core' complete
> > |
> > | I don't see this behavior on my system.  I get an out of memory error
> > | as you saw with previous versions.
> >
> > I should add that the behavior I see is with both
> >
> >   e530656055ae (default branch)
> >   f1ff06a1d73a (stable branch)
> >
> > Also, I'm using a 64-bit system with 16GB of memory.  I haven't tried
> > this example on a 32-bit system, or a system with less memory.
> >
> > jwe
>
> On MacOS 10.7.2 with 8GB of memory and Octave built with -m64, I also see "memory 
> exhausted" for both stable and default.
>
> sprand(1e5,1e5,.1)
> error: memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of Octave's index 
> type -- trying to return to prompt
>
> $ hg id
> f1ff06a1d73a+ (stable) tip
>
> $ hg id
> e530656055ae+
>
> Ben

$ hg id
71e28fda7be9 (stable) tip

and same problem on 3.5.91 snapshot.

cygwin on W7/64 4 GB

no -m64 configuration


Marco