Re: core-dump setting text position with units=normalized

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 20, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On MacOS 10.6.5 (or Ubuntu 10.04 via VirtualBox).
> 
> octave:1> ht = text (0, 0, "Hello", "units", "normalized");
> octave:2> set (ht, "position", [0.5 0.5])
> Assertion failed: (count () == 0), function freerep, file 
> ../liboctave/dim-vector.h, line 123.
> panic: Abort trap -- stopping myself...
> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> save to `octave-core' complete
> 
> In some cases, I don't immediately see a crash. But if I try a second time, I 
> get a seg-fault for the text command. Both back-traces are attached.
> 
> I made to (trivial?) changes to text objects in the last two days.
> 
>       http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/3f952c6973f7
> 
>       http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/521f2bb7c443
> 
> I don't see how these could be responsible, but I hadn't seen this before, so 
> they may be related.
> 
> Any ideas / insight?
> 
> Ben
> 
> <bt.txt><bt2.txt>

I reverted both of the changesets above. The crash still occurs. So this 
problem is unrelated.

Ben