Re: Assertion in symbol table due to Revision 8881

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Daniel J Sebald
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:36 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> On 29-Jun-2009, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>>>
>>> | The octave-core dump ends up being only 11 bytes long.
>>>
>>> The octave-core file is just an octave save file that contains the
>>> variables in the top-level workspace.  It is intended to help you
>>> avoid losing all your work if Octave crashes.  But it seems that it is
>>> a common misconception that this file can somehow be used for
>>> debugging.  Maybe simply changing the name to be something like
>>> octave-crash-workspace-PID would help avoid the confusion?  If there
>>> is agreement, I can make this change.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I don't think so. Octave is very clearly saying
>> attempting to save variables to 'octave-core'...
>> so saved variables are what you should expect in the file, and a who
>> does not bother reading messages just gets what he deserves.
>
> It doesn't say that the variables are being saved exclusively.  Variables
> could be one of many things saved.  (But that isn't the case here.)
>
> Dan
>

Well, but it doesn't speak of anything else, so for expecting anything
else you have no reasoning. Besides, if you interpret "save" aka
Octave's save command, then of course only variables can be saved.

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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
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