Re: Same .m file: different results with different versions of Octave

[Francesco Potortì]

>I've got also no problem with implementing a workaround, if it's done
>conditionally after a check for the potential defect. But I think that
>workarounds for standard functions should be conditional, like what
>gnulib does.

That's exactly what I meant.

The ideal way to go would be having a configure test that enables the
workaround if the bug is found.  Ok, this would leave the door open for
different behaviours on machines having different libc versions, so
maybe not ideal after all...

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