Re: another patch for residue.m

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 11, 2007, at 1:56 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 10-Oct-2007, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> | Although it might appear a bit brazen ;-) ... I decided to charge
> | forth with another patch in order to include poly multiplicity in  
> the
> | reciprocal operation of the residue script.
> |
> | The present operation supports the syntax below.
> |
> |       [R, P, K, E] = residue (B , A);
> |       [B, A] = residue (R, P, K);
> |
> | The attached patch adds the pole's multiplicity as an optional  
> input.
> |
> |       [R, P, K, E] = residue (B , A);
> |       [B, A] = residue (R, P, K, [E]);
> |
> | I've modified the doc string to respect the new optional input, and
> | corrected some of my habits with respect to code formating.
> |
> | I also modified the test script; removed the part that is no longer
> | needed now that the mpoles script works correctly (orders poles
> | consistently), and added testing for the new optional input.
>
> I applied this patch.
>
> Thanks,
>
> jwe


oh oh ...

I updated my copy from cvs and compiled ... unfortunately ...

octave:4> which residue
parse error near line 305 of file /Users/bpabbott/src/octave/07.10.12/ 
scripts/polynomial/residue.m

  syntax error

>>> <<<<<<< residue.m
     ^

which: `residue' is the script file
./residue.m
octave:4> edit residue.m
octave(27287) malloc: ***  Deallocation of a pointer not malloced:  
0xa0b0ea94; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the  
middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable  
MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found:  
__ZN10Octave_mapC1ERK10dim_vectorRK13string_vector
  Referenced from: /sw/lib/octave/2.9.14/oct/i386-apple-darwin/ 
getpwent.oct
  Expected in: /Users/bpabbott/src/octave/07.10.12/src/ 
liboctinterp.dylib

dyld: Symbol not found:  
__ZN10Octave_mapC1ERK10dim_vectorRK13string_vector
  Referenced from: /sw/lib/octave/2.9.14/oct/i386-apple-darwin/ 
getpwent.oct
  Expected in: /Users/bpabbott/src/octave/07.10.12/src/ 
liboctinterp.dylib

panic: Trace/BPT trap -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
Trace/BPT trap

John,

Is the snippet below a supported syntax in a script?

<<<<<<< residue.m
    for m = 1:e(n)
      if m == 1
=======
    for m = 1:e(n)
      if (m == 1)
>>>>>>> 1.31

Ben