Intel Mac save problem (text format)

[Jonathan Stickel]

> Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:57:18 -0500
> From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu>
> Subject: Intel Mac save problem (text format)
> To: "A. Scottedward Hodel" <hodelas at mac.com>
> Cc: bug at octave.org
> Message-ID: <18260.24478.208359.741016 at segfault.lan>
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> 
> On  1-Dec-2007, A. Scottedward Hodel wrote:
> 
> | Bug report for Octave 2.9.17+ configured for i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
> | 
> | Description:
> | -----------
> | 
> | Save crashes when saving in text mode on an intel mac.
> | 
> | Repeat-By:
> | ---------
> | 
> | zap.real = 1;
> | zap.imag = 1;
> | save jnk zap  % get a segmentation fault after a long delay
> 
> I don't have access to an intel mac suitable for building Octave, and
> I can't duplicate this problem on my system, so someone who can
> reproduce the problem is going ot have to debug it.
> 
> If you run Octave with gdb, what does it tell you about where the
> crash occurs?
> 

Saving structure variables (such as above) as both binary and text works 
for me on Intel Mac (OS X 10.4) with octave-2.9.16.

Jonathan