Re: senseless warning in octave-3.6.2

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Francesco Potortì <address@hidden>
> To: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
> Cc: Octave users list <address@hidden>; c. <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, July 1, 2012 8:42 PM
> Subject: Re: senseless warning in octave-3.6.2
> 
>> In this case when I fixed the actual bug the warning disappeared.
>> 
>> The bug was that I needed FOO' instead of just FOO.
> 
> Hm.  After upgrading to 3.6 I was so happy of having broadcasting and I
> immediately started using it.  Then I put
> 
> warning ("off", "Octave:broadcast");
> 
> in my ~/.octaverc.  Now that I read about Sergei's experience I am
> wondering if unconditionally turning the warning off is a good idea
> after all.  What do peple usually do?
> 
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Here is a small test case:

"
octave:1> foo = zeros(1, 1e6);
octave:2> bar = ones(1e6, 1);
octave:3> doo = foo + bar;
warning: operator +: automatic broadcasting operation applied
error: memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of Octave's index 
type -- trying to return to prompt
octave:3> doo = foo' + bar;
octave:4>     
"

which illustrates the problem

Is it a bug or a feature ?

Thanks,
  Sergei.