Simple recursion problem

[John W. Eaton]

On 27-Feb-2005, Michal Tarana <address@hidden> wrote:

| Hi everybody,
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 
| I am trying to run this simple code in Octave:
| 
| function I = strangeintegral(order, b, Z)
|   if (order == 0)
|     result = -0.5 / sqrt(pi * b);
|     I = result + 0.5 * i * sqrt(Z) * cef(-sqrt(b * Z), 20);
|   else
|     result = (-1.0 / (2.0 * pi)) * (b ^ (-order - 2.5)) *
| spgamma(order);
|     I = result + Z * strangeintegral(order - 1, b, Z);
|   endif
| endfunction
| 
| But sometimes Octave crashes with Segmentation fault and I don't know,
| why. When I call this function from the commandline, sometimes Octave
| crashes.

Then that is a bug (see http://www.octave.org/bugs.html).

Please submit a complete bug report to the address@hidden list, or at
least tell us what values you are passing to your function so we might
have some hope of reproducing the problem without wasting a lot of
time guessing about how to reproduce the problem.

Thanks,

jwe



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