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

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Tue, 12/16/08, Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: octave-3.0.3 crashes while executing 'expfit' ("free(): invalid pointer")
> To: "Sergei Steshenko" <sergstesh at yahoo.com>
> Cc: bug-octave at octave.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 12:11 AM
> Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 15:52 -0800 schrieb Sergei
> Steshenko:
> > 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.
> 
> The script finished without crashing (AMD64, Debian, Octave
> 3.0.3)
> octave:1> expfit_crash
> started expfit
> finished expfit
> Elapsed time is 2066.02 seconds.
> 
> 	Thomas

My system is 32 bits, not 64.

Thanks,
  Sergei.