[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#699300: octave matrix multiply grief

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

* William Ludescher <whludescher@verizon.net> [2013-01-31 16:47]:
> Well here's the dump from strace. It looks like it only tells us the 
> directory of the routine which is being processed. The last meaningful 
> one here is an octave signal directory, which has a bunch of short time 
> frequency estimation algorithms, which makes no sense in this context.
>
> And then the error seems to occur here 
> stat64("finish", 0xbfcc8280) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 
> ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbfcc8cd8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid  argument)
>
> I'm afraid that I don't know what to make of this. Can you illuminate me 
> please?

I am not a specialist of strace, but looking at the log file I found 
this:

    error: `ab' undefined near line 1 column 29

Which command did you use for producing the strace dump?  In my 
previous message, I suggested this:

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

It looks like you typed 'ab' instead of 'a*b'.  If this is the case, then 
the matrix multiply bug was not exposed.  Please, try it again.

Rafael