[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #32167] Cannot load all matlab's .mat file

[David Bateman]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #32167 (project octave):

After having looked at this for a few hours I don't understand what is going
on, but we probably need to directly use the zlib inflate function rather than
the uncompress utility function to allow fine detail on how we uncompress the
data.

Thinking about it, I wonder if we aren't just better off taking the matio
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/matio/) library that also knows how to read
matlab v7.3 files and using it to replace all of the Octave matfile code. The
only disadvantage I see of doing this is that matio doesn't know how to handle
matlab Objects and so saving/loading anonymous function handles and function
handles would need to be added to matio code to allow it to be used with
Octave, but that might be easier than getting the matlab v7.3 stuff right
ourselves. Though this should be thought about for 3.5 rather than 3.4

In any case I'll try again to fix this using directly the zlib inflate
function as a quick fix for 3.4

D.


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