On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Ether Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
Is this a known bug?
When I use this:
A=zeros(20000);
... I get a memory error.
But when I use this:
for i=1:20000
A(i)=0;
endfor;
... it works fine.
See log below:
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octave-3.6.4.exe:1> A=zeros(20000);
error: memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of Octave's
index
type -- trying to return to prompt
octave-3.6.4.exe:1> for i=1:20000
> A(i)=0;
> endfor;
octave-3.6.4.exe:2>
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zeros(4)
ans =
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
>> zeros(4,1)
ans =
0
0
0
0