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

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 confirmed
Control: tags -1 wontfix
Control: forwarded -1 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49206

* Francesco Potortì <Potorti@isti.cnr.it> [2016-09-28 10:39]:

> > 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.

Thanks.  You have probably seen the comments posted on the Savannah 
bug page:

Andreas Weber: "Confirmed. Just a note: The 4.2 release of Octave 
includes a new function 'hash' which is also capable of calculating SHA1"

Mike Miller: "Yeah I guess that this SHA1 function in general is a 
candidate for dropping from the package rather than fixing once 4.2 is 
released."

I am hereby tagging this bug report "wontfix", accordingly.

Rafael