Problem with 2.1.57 loading Octave binary format data file

[Glenn Golden]

[Sorry if this is a duplicate, and/or wrong list; it was sent (twice)
to bug-octave but did not show up there, possibly due to outbound
email problems on my part, not sure.]

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Anyone else seeing this? I didn't find anything about it in the lists,
but maybe I didn't look hard enough. Seems like a fairly serious problem
that lots of people would have come across already, but perhaps it's
just related to my build:

Running 2.1.57:

    1>   y = rand(100);
    2>   save("-binary", "y", "y");
    3>   load -force y
    error: load: trouble reading binary file `y

Completely consistent, happens every time.  File and directory permissions
are fine. Does not occur in 2.1.50.

I think problem is related to 2.1.57 save(), because 2.1.57 can
read Octave binary format files produced by 2.1.50, and 2.1.50
cannot read binary format files produced by 2.1.57.

If it's any help, the filesizes produced by 2.1.50 and 2.1.57 are
slightly different (14 bytes longer for 2.1.57).

I'll write up full bug report if others are seeing this problem,
otherwise I guess I have to look at my build here first...

Glenn

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