[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#607071: Bug#607071: octave-symbolic: Segfaults, doesn't work at all

[Geoff Gole]

fwiw, I can reproduce this.

$ apt-get install octave-symbolic
...
$ octave
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octave:1> x = sym("x")
x =

x
octave:2>  x+2
error: T& Array<T>::checkelem (0, -1, 2): range error
error: binary operator `+' not implemented for `ex' by `scalar' operations
error: evaluating binary operator `+' near line 2, column 3
octave:2> Sin(x)
error: Internal error: statement in file ./real/elem/cl_R_mul.cc, line
93 has been reached!!
Please send the authors of the program a description how you produced
this error!