seg-fault of octave on MacOSX

[John W. Eaton]

On  5-Dec-2007, Jean-François Mertens wrote:

| On 05 Dec 2007, at 06:34, John W. Eaton wrote:
| 
| > On  5-Dec-2007, Jean-François Mertens wrote:
| > > switch from g95 to gfortran 4.2.2
| > Was that the only change, or did the C and C++ compilers also change?
| Yes, it was ! C and C++ were left at Apple's !
| But I sent a copy of this problem to a friend, jhowarth at cinci.rr.com,
| who is maintaining the gcc and g95 etc pkgs for fink, and he reported
| just now that if using gcc4.2.2 for all 3 compilers (c, c++, and  
| gfortran),
| this error disappeared.
| So this seems really a compiler problem (and specific to the Mac- 
| Intel back-end?),
| that we have to solve for ourselves _ if we can just hope for your  
| guidance
| in reducing this to an example not involving octave ..

I have no idea what I can do to help you.  As I've mentioned before, I
don't have a Mac OS X system, so I can't debug this problem.

Since the problem seems to be caused by mixing compiler versions, my
advice would be "don't do that".

jwe