crash on "clear all" after call to "mesh"

John W. Eaton jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu
Sun May 4 22:39:29 CDT 2008


On  4-May-2008, Ben Abbott wrote:

| Bug report for Octave 3.0.0+ configured for i386-apple-darwin9.2.2
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
| I built Octave using the default branch this morning. My tip shows ...
| 
| changeset:   7920:7c020c067a60
| tag:         tip
| user:        John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org>
| date:        Sat May 03 22:48:24 2008 -0400
| summary:     F__end__: correctly handle fewer indices than dimensions
| 
| I'm encounter a "panic: Bus error" crash after running a script,  
| followed by "clear all". If the commands in the script are typed  
| directly into the console and followed by a "clear all" a crash also  
| results. However, if the "clear all" is included in the script there  
| is not crash. However, any subsequent "clear all" will produce a crash.
| 
| Repeat-By:
| ---------
| 
| # Create a simple script containing the lines below (one is attached)
|  > x = linspace(0.0,1,101);
|  > y = linspace(0.0,1,11);
|  > [x, y] = meshgrid (x, y);
|  > mesh (x, y, x.*y)
| 
| Run the script, and then type "clear all"
| 
| octave:1> test_crash
| octave:2> clear all
| panic: Bus error -- stopping myself...
| attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
| save to `octave-core' complete
| Bus error

I think this is fixed now.

Thanks,

jwe


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