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

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Mon, 12/15/08, 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: Monday, December 15, 2008, 11:44 PM
> 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.
> 
> How long till you see the crash? The program is executing
> on a pretty
> fast machine now for several minutes and still not
> finished. It uses far
> over 1GB of memory, though.
> 
> 	Thomas

In my case it takes

real    11m26.922s
user    9m37.148s
sys     0m17.037s
.

Memory consumption is about 2G (+/-) at peak.

By the way, the crash is repeatable 100% on my system - the above
timings are from yet another run which ended up in crash.

Thanks,
  Sergei.