Re: Octave chokes on this in some systems

[Paul Kienzle]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:51:15PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> The following change to Octave will allow the test_caller/test_callee
> functions to work with GCC 4.0.2, at least on my system (Debian x86
> testing, everything compiled with GCC 4.0.2).

It also removes the problems with listen().

> But since the only
> change to Octave is to move the function definition from a .cc file to
> a .h file, this does seem to indicate a bug of some sort in GCC or
> libstdc++ (octave_value_list is implemented using a std::vector
> object).
> 
> The crash was happening in the octave_value_list destructor.  Maybe
> the problem is similar to this one:
> 
>    http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24196
> 
> ?
> 
> The diff is relative to the current CVS.  To apply it to older
> sources, change octave_idx_type to int.  Or, just make the same change
> by hand (move the definition of the resize function from oct-obj.cc to
> oct-obj.h).

The patch isn't in the current CVS nor did it apply cleanly.

Thanks,

        - Paul



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