octave 3.2.4 and latest graphicsmagick

[Marco Atzeri]

Hi,
before releasing any new version of graphicsmagick (after 1.3.7)
for cygwin I am trying to backport the
changeset

__magick_read__ (F__magick_read__): call Magick::InitializeMagick
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/ad0b54ae206a

to 3.2.4 .
I tried this:

------------------------------------------------------------
--- origsrc/octave-3.2.4/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/__magick_read__.cc   2009-08-25 
10:26              :01.000000000 +0200
+++ src/octave-3.2.4/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/__magick_read__.cc       2010-03-04 
15:45              :31.365065500 +0100
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@

 #include <cmath>

+#include "oct-env.h"
 #include "defun-dld.h"
 #include "error.h"
 #include "ov-struct.h"
@@ -358,6 +359,17 @@

 #ifdef HAVE_MAGICK

+  static bool initialized = false;
+
+  if (! initialized)
+    {
+      std::string program_name = octave_env::get_program_invocation_name ();
+
+      Magick::InitializeMagick (program_name.c_str ());
+
+      initialized = true;
+    }
+
   if (args.length () > 2 || args.length () < 1 || ! args(0).is_string ()
       || nargout > 3)
     {
-----------------------------------------------------------


but I have one, and only, problem with strftime:

on patched 3.2.4

octave:1> strftime("%s",localtime(time()))
error: memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of Octave's index 
type -- trying to return to prompt

while on 3.3.50+ 
octave:1> strftime("%s",localtime(time()))
ans = 1268409816

It is the only fault, all the other tests are passed.

I have not found any changeset impacting 
src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/time.cc

that could explain the different outputs.

Any idea ?

I already changed GM-1.3.12 as suggested by the author from
setlocale(LC_ALL,""); 
to 
setlocale(LC_ALL,"C");

but it made no difference

Regards
Marco