[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#395293: octave2.9: kron(a, b) does not work when a is sparse and b is bool

[Esben Mose Hansen <esben@ange.dk>]

Package: octave2.9
Version: 2.9.9-3
Severity: normal


Doing the following kronecker product gives an error where 0 was expected

octave:1> kron(speye(1),false)
error: octave_base_value::sparse_matrix_value(): wrong type argument `bool'

Various "close" variations works as expected:

octave:1> kron(speye(1),sparse(false))
ans = 0
octave:2> kron(speye(1),[false false])
ans =

Compressed Column Sparse (rows = 1, cols = 2, nnz = 0)

octave:3> kron(speye(1),[])
ans = Compressed Column Sparse (rows = 0, cols = 0, nnz = 0)

-- System Information:
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Versions of packages octave2.9 depends on:
ii  atlas3-3dnow [liblapack. 3.6.0-20.2      Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  atlas3-base [liblapack.s 3.6.0-20.2      Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  atlas3-sse2 [liblapack.s 3.6.0-20.2      Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  fftw3                    3.1.2-1         library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  lapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.0.20000531a-6 library of linear algebra routines
ii  libc6                    2.3.6.ds1-6     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.1.1-16      GCC support library
ii  libgfortran1             4.1.1-16        Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libglpk0                 4.11-2          linear programming kit (shared lib
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.5-0 [ 1.6.5-2.1       Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libncurses5              5.5-4           Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3                 6.7-1           Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libreadline5             5.1-9           GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6               4.1.1-16        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libufsparse              1.2-7           collection of libraries for comput
ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3]  1.2-8           Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  texinfo                  4.8.dfsg.1-3    Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-13      compression library - runtime

octave2.9 recommends no packages.

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