Compiling old OCT files

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Sep-2004, E. Joshua Rigler <address@hidden> wrote:

| I recently decided to dust off some old DLD functions I developed a few
| years ago using Octave 2.1.34 (or so), and Redhat linux 7.2.  Now I use
| Octave 2.1.57 (self-compiled with Octave Forge) on Enterprise Redhat,
| and I get two consistent errors that didn't used to occur.
| 
| 1) Every time I try to return a null matrix after printing out an error
| message (i.e.,
| 
| 
| [376]  error ("Too many inputs.\n");
| [377]  return retval = Matrix (0,0);
| 
| 
| ), I get this error when I use mkoctfile:
| 
| 
| test.cc:377: no match for `octave_value_list& = Matrix' operator
| /usr/local/include/octave-2.1.57/octave/oct-obj.h:78: candidates are:
|    octave_value_list& octave_value_list::operator=(const octave_value_list&)

What is the type of retval?  I assume it must be octave_value_list.
Try

  return octave_value (Matrix (0, 0));

instead.

| 2) I am having problems with strings.  Sadly, I don't really remember
| why I coded things the way I did three years ago.  I think I took some
| hints from JWE.  Everything worked, but I didn't really understand what
| I was doing at the time.  For instance, the following code used to work
| for copying a "const char*" value to a "char*" because the C library
| function I was writing a wrapper for couldn't handle the former:
| 
| 
| [488]  char *fmt = new char [args(1).string_value ().length () +1];
| [489]  args(1).string_value ().copy (fmt, string::npos);
| [490]  fmt [args(1).string_value ().length ()] = '\0';
| 
| Now, I get the following error:
| 
| 
|   test.cc:489: `string' undeclared (first use this function)
|   test.cc:489: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each
|      function it appears in.)
|   test.cc:489: syntax error before `::' token

How about

  std::string s = args(1).string_value ();
  size_t slen = s.length ();
  char *t = new char [slen+1];
  s.copy (t, std::string::npos);
  t[slen] = '\0';

?

jwe



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