[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #52977] Octave can be caused to crash with autoload'ed functions

[Olaf Till]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #52977 (project octave):

Same bug is triggered with

get_help_text ("somename")

if somename.oct is a file intended to be autoloaded with an alias.

This happens in installation of packages with such files, since Octaves
builtin "__list_functions__" doesn't handle autoloads if called with a
directory argument. (So that was triggers the bug is probably a bug itself. A
different issue.)

The fix for the original bug (the segfault), enabling installation of such
packages again, is checking if the loaded function is zero before using it. A
small changeset is attached.

(file #43190)
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