indexing crash with current tip

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Kai Habel <kai.habel at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I don't know if I have messed up my installation, but with the current
> tip I see the following crash:
>
> [New Thread 0xb58bb8e0 (LWP 28986)]
> octave:1> u(end-2:end)
> error: invalid use of end
> error: invalid base value in colon expression
> error: evaluating argument list element number 1
> error: evaluating argument list element number 1
> octave:1> u(end-2:end)=0
> *** glibc detected *** /usr/local/bin/octave: free(): invalid pointer:
> 0x0843f180 ***

Fixed in development archive:
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/47f19c11b558

Still, can anyone verify what Matlab does when it sees the magic end
within an undefined variable? Is assuming zero dimensions the correct
behavior? Maybe we should gripe?

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
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