Re: [OctDev] Octave mingw 3.2.0 crashes

[Benjamin Lindner]

nit ar wrote:
> *Hello octave maintainers !
>
> Octave Mingw 3.2.0 crashes on my XP SP3 machine when :
> a. certain eval commands are executed within function after octave startup
> b. clear functions command is executed
>
> I am attaching a test function code (testf1.m) and listing hereafter 
> some examples which lead to such crashes.
> The examples have been run immediately after octave startup.
>
> % example A - crash, no exception notice:
> [a,b]=testf1('b=4;a=testf1(''a=1;'',''a'');','a','b'); % ok
> clear functions % crashes, no exception notice
>
> **% example B - above line function calling succeeds when it is called 
> in two stages but crashes when clearing functions, no exception notice:
> **a=testf1('a=1;c=3;','a'); % ok
> **[a,b]=testf1('b=4;a=testf1(''a=1;'',''a'');','a','b'); % ok
> clear functions** % crashes, no exception notice
>
> **% example C - crashes with windows Application Error popup:
> [a,b]=testf1('b=4;a=testf1(''a=1;c=3;'',''a'');','a','b'); % crashes
>
> Example C above generates an windows application error popup:
> The instruction at "0x7c9104fa" referenced memory at "0xfffffffd", The 
> memory could not be "read".
> Click OK to terminate the program
>
> I have followed some threads regarding the possibility that SWIG related 
> packages are causing these crashes so I have tried the above examples 
> also after executing
> pkg unload all
> and still having these crashes.

IIRC those packages must be uninstalled, not just unloaded.
If you uninstall them, do you still see the crashes?

benjamin