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

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

* whludescher <whludescher@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