[Pkg-octave-devel] "lasterr(2)" crashes octave
Edward C. Jones
edcjones@comcast.net
Mon, 02 May 2005 15:56:57 -0400
I have an up-to-date (May 1, 2005) Debian unstable system on a PC. I
have octave2.1 (2.1.69-1), octave-ci (99.09-2) and octave-forge
(2004.11.16-7).
> octave
GNU Octave, version 2.1.69 (i386-pc-linux-gnu).
Copyright (C) 2005 John W. Eaton.
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octave:1> lasterr(10)
error: lasterr: expecting all arguments to be strings
panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
Segmentation fault
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