On 25 Nov 2007, at 03:40, Jean-François Mertens wrote: >> The bug referred to persists in version 2.9.17 Is there anything else I can do to help you isolate/solve the bug ? (It seems specific to Intel macs) Either it is a bug in octave, or in gfortran 4.2.2 _ anyway has to get fixed. JF Mertens