Re: 3.6.0 release

[Michael Goffioul]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:47 PM, logari81 <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I find that the legend labels are missing for "demo legend" (for
>> example) when using "graphics_toolkit fltk".  The following change
>> brings them back for me:
>>
>> diff --git a/liboctave/oct-alloc.h b/liboctave/oct-alloc.h
>> --- a/liboctave/oct-alloc.h
>> +++ b/liboctave/oct-alloc.h
>> @@ -72,6 +72,10 @@
>>        { ::operator delete (p); }
>>  #endif
>>
>> +#ifndef USE_OCTAVE_ALLOCATOR
>> +#define USE_OCTAVE_ALLOCATOR 1
>> +#endif
>> +
>>  #if defined (USE_OCTAVE_ALLOCATOR)
>>
>>  #define DECLARE_OCTAVE_ALLOCATOR \
>>
>> Why this change has any effect on the legend labels is a complete
>> mystery to me.
>>
>> jwe
>
> this fixes the problem on my system as well. How did you come to this?
> Bisecting?

This must the symptom of something else (like uninitialized memory).
Forcing the use of the octave allocator is IMO not a solution.

Michael.