Re: MinGW version binary gobbledygook error messages?

[David Bateman]

Sebastien Loisel wrote:

>     I'm much more comfortable in the numeric classes of octave than the
>     parser, which I've never fully understood either.. John or Paul
>     probably
>     know more than I do, though I fear given your goal of an IDE, you'll
>     soon be the expert on this part of octave :-)
>
>
> Crap!
>
> Well I've been wrestling with this for a week. Right now I would 
> settle for a very simple thing:
>
> Before calling eval_string(), I would like to make sure that all the 
> symbols in the symbol table are fresh. The following code achieves 
> nothing:
>
> Array<symbol_record *> syms2= fbi_sym_tab->symbol_list
>     (string_vector(),symbol_record::USER_FUNCTION
>      +symbol_record::BUILTIN_FUNCTION);
> for(i=0;i<syms2.length();i++) { lookup_function(syms2(i)->name()); }
>
> How do I make it work?
>
> Sébastien Loisel
Why not try the "octave_fcn_file_name_cache::update (const std::string& 
path)" function which returns true if something on the path and in the 
function cache changed...

D.

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