[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#839003: Bug#839003: octave-general: SHA1 crashes Octave

[Francesco Potortì <Potorti@isti.cnr.it>]

>Control: tags - confirmed
>
>Indeed, Octave crashes on amd64 when SHA1 is involved.  However, it 
>works on i386:
>
> octave:2> SHA1(1)
> ans =
>
>   191   139    69    48   216   210    70   221   116   172    83   161    52   113   187   161   121    65   223   247
>
>
>This difference in behavior between i386 and amd64 is perhaps related to 
>the different sizeof(long) in both architectures.
>
>I think that this is not a Debian-specific problem.

Ok, I filed a report on Savannah.

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