Octave chokes on this in some systems

[Shai Ayal]

Hi all,

I'm attaching a very small test file which works fine for me using 
2.1.71 on cygwin (pre-built binary) & on fc3 (self compiled) but causes 
a core dump on Peter Jensen's system, which is:

debian testing
octave 2.1.71 installed from binary octave-2.1.71-5
gcc: 4.0.2 (Debian 4.0.2-2)

Is it my lousy programming or are we on to something? I have a gut 
feeling this is connected to some difference between gcc-3 and gcc-4

Instructions:
save in a directory of your choice and then:

mkoctfile test_caller.cc
ln -s test_caller.oct test_callee.oct
octave
test_caller

Shai

#include "oct.h"
#include "parse.h"

DEFUN_DLD (test_callee, args, nargout,"")
{
  octave_value_list retval;

  int nargin = args.length ();

  std::string cmd = args(0).string_value();
 
  retval(0) = false;
  
  return retval;
}

DEFUN_DLD (test_caller, args, nargout,"")
{
  octave_value_list args1;
  args1(0)="redraw";
  feval("test_callee",args1);
 
  octave_value_list retval;
  retval(0) = false;
  
  return retval;
}