Octave 3.2.0-mingw32 crashes when using 'clear all'

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Jul-2009, Michiel Koot wrote:

| I just installed Octave 3.2.0-mingw32 on a Pentium D PC with Windows Vista.
| 
| When I type 'dir' it says:
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| error: memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of Octave's index type -- 
| trying to return to prompt
| 
| Using 'ls' instead works fine though.
| 
| When I type 'clear all' or 'clear -all' Octave crashes, saying:
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| panic: Segmentation violation -- stopping myself...
| attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
| save to `octave-core' complete
| 
| Do more people encounter this?
| 
| I've been using Octave 3.0.1 on the same computer for over a year and it still works fine.

If this is the same bug reported earlier, then I checked in the
following change for it:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/69d05d1a63b9

See also the thread

  https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2009-July/012801.html

jwe