dimension mismatch in spdiags leads to core dump

Elias Pipping elias at pipping.org
Mon Jun 15 20:07:12 CDT 2009


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Bug report for Octave 3.2.0 configured for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Description:
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  * I meant to write

       n=200; e=ones(n,1); A=spdiags([e 4*e e], -1:1, n, n);

    but instead wrote

       n=200; e=ones(n,1); A=spdiags([e 4*e e], -1:1, n);

    which led to the error

      error: A(I,J,...) = X: dimensions mismatch
      error: called from:
      error:   /usr/share/octave/3.2.0/m/sparse/spdiags.m at line 71, column 29
      error:   /usr/share/octave/3.2.0/m/sparse/spdiags.m at line 76, column 7

    however, when running the same erroneous command again, I got

      octave: symtab.h:1065: static void symbol_table::force_variable(const std::string&, int, size_t): Assertion `xcurrent_context == 0' failed.
      panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
      attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
      save to `octave-core' complete
      Aborted

Configuration (please do not edit this section):
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uname output:     Linux pfirsich 2.6.30 #1 SMP Wed Jun 10 19:46:09 CEST
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