Re: Assertion in symbol table due to Revision 8881

[David Grundberg]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 29-Jun-2009, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> | The octave-core dump ends up being only 11 bytes long.
>
> The octave-core file is just an octave save file that contains the
> variables in the top-level workspace.  It is intended to help you
> avoid losing all your work if Octave crashes.  But it seems that it is
> a common misconception that this file can somehow be used for
> debugging.  Maybe simply changing the name to be something like
> octave-crash-workspace-PID would help avoid the confusion?  If there
> is agreement, I can make this change.
>
> jwe
>   

I think the current name (octave-core) is cute, in a unixy way. But 
since people associate this with debugging too much, I think it calling 
it workspace-something is a good solution. Maybe a compromise, like 
workspace-core?

Just my 0.02 SEK.

David