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

[John W. Eaton]

On 16-Dec-2008, Sergei Steshenko wrote:

| > From: John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org>
| > Subject: Re: octave-3.0.3 crashes while executing 'expfit' ("free(): invalid pointer")
| > To: sergstesh at yahoo.com
| > Cc: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at octave.org>, "Ben Abbott" <bpabbott at mac.com>, bug-octave at octave.org
| > Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 7:59 AM
| > On 16-Dec-2008, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
| > 
| > | > > 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.
| > 
| > Then please send it and whatever it depends on so that I
| > have a
| > complete example that includes precisely the code you are
| > using.  If
| > you are reporting a bug in Octave itself, then please
| > don't assume we
| > have the same Octave Forge packages installed that you do.
| > 
| > jwe
| 
| Please find 'expfit.m' attached, it's from 'optim-1.0.4' package.
| 
| The latter is from 'octave-forge-bundle-20080831' which was downloaded from
| SourceForge the regular way.
| 
| I haven't changed anything in 'octave' or 'octave-forge-bundle-20080831'.

I can't reproduce this problem on a Debian AMD64 system.

jwe