Re: Help plaese: panic: Illegal instruction

[David Bateman]

lc wrote:
> I got 'panic: Illegal instruction -- stopping myself...'
> with something as simple as row*matrix. e.g. :
>
> octave --eval  "a=zeros(2), v=[0,0], v*a"
>
> The system is
> Debian Linux i386, octave 3.2.4-4 libatlas3gfbase 3.8.3-21
>
> Other m-scripts (without row x matrix ) works well.
>
> Maybe a hardware failure?
>
> Thanks for any help
> lc
> ___

You are most probably using a version of the BLAS that is not adapted to 
your machine.. Probably you have an older machine without SSE3 and you 
are using a BLAS co;piled to use SSE3. Change your BLAS

D.