polyfit enters infinite loop

[Thorsten Meyer]

Afief Halumi wrote:
> Bug report for Octave 3.0.1 configured for i486-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> Description:
> -----------
> 
>   trying to polyfit log(x) when x starts at 0( log(0)=-inf according to
> octave ) keeps running indefinitely(or at least for over 15 minutes)
> 
> Repeat-By:
> ---------
> 
>   * x=0:0.1:10; y=log(x); polyfit(x,y,3);
> 
I can confirm this bug with 3.0.1.

In octave freshly built from the mercurial sources the command returns:
octave:4> x=0:0.1:10; y=log(x); polyfit(x,y,3)
ans =

   NaN   NaN   NaN  -Inf
So apparently, it has already been fixed.

can somebody check in 3.0.3?

Thorsten