problems about "eval"

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Aug-2008, Peter1 Mueller wrote:

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| Hi All,
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| attached  I send you e difference between Octave and MAtlab R12P1.
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| Octave, win32:
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| octave-3.0.1.exe:8> ~eval('defines.PHDRS_AEROFPGA_H_ ', '0')
| ans = 0
| error: evaluating prefix operator `!' near line 8, column 1
| octave-3.0.1.exe:8>
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| Matlab:
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| >> ~eval('defines.PHDRS_AEROFPGA_H_ ', '0')
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| ans =
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|      1
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| >>
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| in addition:
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| >> defines.PHDRS_AEROFPGA_H_
| ??? Undefined variable 'defines'.
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| >>
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| so   defines.PHDRS_AEROFPGA_H_  is undefined and therefore 0 is returned.

I checked in the following change.

Thanks,

jwe

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