Re: need test run on Mac

[Lukas Reichlin]

On 27.02.2014, at 06:52, "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Could someone with Octave and the control package installed on a Mac run the 
> following commands and see whether they cause Octave to abort or just issue 
> an error message?
> 
> y = zeros(1,25);
> u = ones(1,25);
> tsam = 0.1;
> data = iddata(y,u,tsam);
> n4sid(data,1);
> 
> This is related to the bug #41716:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?41716
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jwe



Hi John,

Here you go:

ra:~ lukas$ octave
GNU Octave, version 3.6.4
Copyright (C) 2013 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "x86_64-apple-darwin".

<snip>

octave:1> y = zeros(1,25);
octave:2> u = ones(1,25);
octave:3> tsam = 0.1;
octave:4> data = iddata(y,u,tsam);
warning: iddata: more outputs than samples - matrice 'y' should probably be 
transposed
warning: iddata: more inputs than samples - matrice 'u' should probably be 
transposed
octave:5> n4sid(data,1);
 ** On entry to IB01AD parameter number  7 had an illegal value

warning: octave_chunk_buffer::clear: 2 active allocations remain!
ra:~ lukas$ 

I installed Octave through the Fink package manager on OS X 10.8.5.

Regards,
Lukas