Re: dir on Octave 3.2.0 on Vista

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:27:11 +0200 Benjamin Lindner <lindnerben@...> wrote

> Koen Vermeer wrote:
> > I tried to do a 'dir' command on Octave 3.2.0 on Vista, but it crashed
> > (see below). The same thing seems to work on XP. I localized the problem
> > to the strftime call in dir.m, but didn't have the time to dig into it
> > any further. Still being new to Octave, I decided to ask here first
> > before filing a bug report. Is this a known thing, or some stupid
> > mistake on my side?
> Can you provide more details as to what is the problem you localized?
> Perhaps a simple call to strftime that shows the crash?

I guess it's related to this: Whenever I do strftime("%T",localtime(#number#)),
Octave crashes. This now also happens on my XP box. Please see the output of the
Octave session below.

Koen


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warning: mark_as_command is obsolete and will be removed from a future version
of Octave
octave-3.2.0.exe:1:C:\Octave\3.2.0_gcc-4.3.0\bin
> strftime("%T",localtime(12345))
error: memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of Octave's index
type -- trying to return to prompt
octave-3.2.0.exe:1:C:\Octave\3.2.0_gcc-4.3.0\bin
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