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Experiences with octave 1.93 on DEC-Alpha
From: |
Peter Bruhn |
Subject: |
Experiences with octave 1.93 on DEC-Alpha |
Date: |
Fri, 6 Dec 1996 15:34:34 +0100 |
Hi,
I have tried to compile the 1.93 sources on my DEC-Alpha running
DEC-UNIX 4.0 (formerly called DEC-OSF) using gcc 2.7.2.1
Compiling went fine (except for the glob-subdirectory, but I just
removed it, since the functions glob and fnmatch are in the standard
library anyway).
When I used octave, I got core-dumps whenever I tried to call a
command that does not exist. The problem was somewhere in the kpathsea
library. So I linked octave 1.93 with the kpathea library of octave
1.1.1. This seemed to work fine.
After using octave 1.93 for a while I found the following problems:
1. Calculations like 222^222 do not give "Inf" but "1.7977e+308".
2. fscanf does not work properly (not as documented and not as it
works with octave 1.1.1
Both fscanf(fnum, "%s") and fscanf(fnum, "%c") read the whole
contents of a file, instead of just a word or just a character.
Any comments, hints, flames,... are appreciated,
Peter
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- Experiences with octave 1.93 on DEC-Alpha,
Peter Bruhn <=