[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#699300: Bug#699300: Octave crashes with Matrix multiply

whludescher whludescher at verizon.net
Thu Jan 31 20:06:30 UTC 2013


Rafael,
	No strace on my squeeze system. Where can I get it?
Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Rafael Laboissiere [mailto:rafael at laboissiere.net] 
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 2:00 PM
To: whludescher
Cc: 699300 at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#699300: Octave crashes with Matrix
multiply

* whludescher <whludescher at verizon.net> [2013-01-31 13:35]:
>
> [snip] Then I launched octave and then just typed a=[1 2; 3 4]; b=[5 
> 6;7 8]; a*b. Poof, octave disappeared in a pile of digital dust ( but 
> a+b is ok). [snip] Thanks again in advance for putting up with my 
> grief

You might start by trying this:

      echo 'a=[1 2; 3 4]; b=[5 6;7 8]; a*b' | strace octave

and looking at the output of strace (NB: it is *_very_* verbose).

Rafael



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