octave-3.0.3 crashes while executing 'expfit' ("free(): invalid pointer")

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Tue, 12/16/08, Ben Abbott <bpabbott at mac.com> wrote:

> From: Ben Abbott <bpabbott at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: octave-3.0.3 crashes while executing 'expfit' ("free(): invalid pointer")
> To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at octave.org>
> Cc: "Sergei Steshenko" <sergstesh at yahoo.com>, bug-octave at octave.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 4:10 AM
> On Dec 15, 2008, at 10:17 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> 
> > On 15-Dec-2008, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> > 
> > | Hello All,
> > |
> > | the attached file, when "source"'ed
> from 'octave' prompt, causes it to
> > | crash with screen output to be found below.
> > |
> > | This is self-built from scratch 'octave' and
> friends, including gcc-4.3.2
> > | and lapack-3.2 on SUSE-10.3, IA32 architecture.
> > |
> > | It looks like the crash is data-dependent, so the
> attached file has the
> > | data generation part too, but I'm not 100% sure.
> > 
> > I saved it in a file and I see:
> > 
> >  octave:1> xscript
> >  started expfit
> >  error: `expfit' undefined near line 74 column 38
> >  error: called from:
> >  error:   /scratch/jwe/build/octave/xscript.m at line
> -1, column -1
> > 
> > What is expfit?
> > 
> > Can you please send a complete example?
> > 
> > jwe
> 
> Perhaps expfit is from OctaveForge?
> 
> 	http://octave.sourceforge.net/doc/f/expfit.html
> 
> Ben

Yes.