[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: Bug#695551: Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

Wed Dec 12 22:10:16 UTC 2012

On 12 December 2012 16:49, Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 01:03:05PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:

>> Is the octave-core file useful?
> The default answer to that question is "no". In fact, I cannot remember
> a single case where the octave-core file was of use.

It's been renamed to "octave-workspace" in the current development
version. It's not a core dump; rather, just the Octave variables that
happened to have been defined in the interpreter when Octave crashed.

- Jordi G. H.