Re: Seg fault with test_sparse.m

[John W. Eaton]

On 21-Aug-2006, Joe Koski wrote:

| on 8/21/06 11:10 AM, John W. Eaton at address@hidden wrote:
| 
| > On 21-Aug-2006, Joe Koski wrote:
| > 
| > | Now the only remaining error is
| > | 
| > | test_io.m .............................................. PASS   65/66   
FAIL
| > | 1
| > | 
| > | which is unrelated to the sparse matrix package, and doesn't seem to 
affect
| > | my day-to-day use of octave.
| > 
| > Can you give some more details about this failure?  What is in the log
| > file for it?
| > 
| > jwe
| 
| John,
| 
| In fntests.log, the following lines report the error:
| 
| >>>>> processing test_io
|   ***** test
|  
|  [save_status, save_files] = testls (0);
|  [load_status, load_files] = testls (1);
|  
|  for f = [save_files, load_files]
|    unlink (f{1});
|  endfor
|  
|  assert(save_status && load_status);
| !!!!! test failed
| error: failed: mat5.mat int64
| 
| Apparently related to 64 bit integers? Sorry, I don't know the status of Mac
| support for 64 bit integers in OS X 10.4.7. I do know that they don't claim
| full 64 bit support yet.

Does OS X have 64-bit long long integers?  Search for
HAVE_LONG_LONG_INT=1 and SIZEOF_LONG_LONG=8 in the output from
octave_config_info.

jwe