Re: input validation in C++ internal functions

[Andreas Weber]

Am 05.05.2014 19:24, schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso:
> On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 16:39 +0100, Michael D. Godfrey wrote:
>> On 05/05/2014 07:47 AM, Andreas Weber wrote:
>>> In my humble optinion no function should segfault when accessible from
>>> the octave interpreter.
>> I am pretty sure that Jordi agrees with this, and it s a long-standing
>> principle that Octave should never seg fault.
> 
> Yeah, it's a bug, although I consider it a minor one, since it's in
> internal functions.
> 
> My complaint at the time was that almost none of the internal C++
> functions do any argument-checking. I'm not against this sort of
> patch, but I am against cluttering every internal C++ function with
> argument-checking boilerplate code. Andy's patch in question at the
> moment looks reasonable to me, but it's a stopgap around a larger
> problem.

Pushed to stable
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/5e99fd6ea758 after
discussion in IRC. -- Andy