[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59100] "__debug_octave__" doesn't work on Windows

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #59100 (project octave):

So it sounds like the command from comment #2 should be adopted.

The extra bit of text printed in the Octave Command Window, rather than in the
new shell, is annoying but not tragic for an internal function that won't get
executed very often.

I might make a guess that of the two output streams, STDERR and STDOUT,
perhaps system() on Windows is not re-directing STDERR at the same time as
STDOUT.

On Linux, 


octave:4> [status, output] = system ("ls NO_SUCH_FILE")
ls: cannot access 'NO_SUCH_FILE': No such file or directory
status = 2
output = 


You can see that STDOUT has been captured in output (but there was nothing to
capture) and that the error message on STDERR went directly to Octave's
command window.  Probably something similar is happening with gdb and when it
was started it sent version information to STDERR.

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