Subject: Re: Fwd: octave updated to 3.4.0-3. Please test (strcat error)
From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA <[email-masked]>
To: marco atzeri <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Cc: "A.R. Burgers" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 11:52:18 +0900 (JST)
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>

Hello

I have tested on windows 7 Home premium 64 bit with octave-3.4.0-3 and cygwin  1.7.9.

octave:1> t=(0:0.1:2*pi);
octave:2> plot(t,sin(t))
      0 [main] gnuplot 4356 exception::handle: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
    752 [main] gnuplot 4356 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to gnuplot.exe.stackdump
      0 [main] gnuplot 3024 exception::handle: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
    552 [main] gnuplot 3024 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to gnuplot.exe.stackdump
      1 [main] gnuplot 3868 exception::handle: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
    868 [main] gnuplot 3868 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to gnuplot.exe.stackdump
      0 [main] gnuplot 3488 exception::handle: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
    314 [main] gnuplot 3488 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to gnuplot.exe.stackdump
      0 [main] gnuplot 4936 exception::handle: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
    364 [main] gnuplot 4936 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to gnuplot.exe.stackdump
      0 [main] gnuplot 4660 exception::handle: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
    404 [main] gnuplot 4660 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to gnuplot.exe.stackdump
      0 [main] gnuplot 1076 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initialization, retry 0,
exit code 0x600, errno 11
error: Invalid call to strcat.  Correct usage is:

 -- Function File:  strcat (S1, S2, ...)

error: called from:
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/help/print_usage.m at line 87, column 5
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/strings/strcat.m at line 92, column 5
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_get_var__.m at line 113, column 11
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__go_draw_axes__.m at line 40, column 18
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__go_draw_figure__.m at line 167, column 19
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_drawnow__.m at line 86, column 5

Regards

Tatsuro

--- marco atzeri  wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:21 PM, A.R. Burgers  wrote:
> > LS,
> >
> > with the current octave, I get this octave strcat
> > error on plot, both with xterm and the dumb terminal.
> > Same error on two different windows XP systems.
> > Same error with libstdc++6 and libgfortran3 from cygwin-ports gcc 4.5.2-2
> >
> > Teun
> >
> > $ octave
> > GNU Octave, version 3.4.0
> > Copyright (C) 2011 John W. Eaton and others.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > octave:1> t=(0:0.1:2*pi);
> > octave:2> plot(t,sin(t))
> > error: Invalid call to strcat. &#160;Correct usage is:
> >
> > &#160;-- Function File: &#160;strcat (S1, S2, ...)
> >
> > error: called from:
> > error: &#160; /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/help/print_usage.m at line 87, column 5
> > error: &#160; /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/strings/strcat.m at line 92, column 5
> > error: &#160; /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_get_var__.m at line 113,
> > column 11
> > error: &#160; /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__go_draw_axes__.m at line 40,
> > column 18
> > error: &#160; /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__go_draw_figure__.m at line 167,
> > column 19
> > error: &#160; /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_drawnow__.m at line 86,
> > column 5
> > octave:3> quit
> >
> > BURGERS@P4949 ~
> > $ echo $TERM $DISPLAY
> > xterm :0
> >
> > BURGERS@P4949 ~
> > $ cygcheck -c octave liblapack0 cygwin libqrupdate0 libgfortran3 libstdc++
> > gnuplot
> > Cygwin Package Information
> > Package &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;Version &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;Status
> > cygwin &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; 1.7.9-1 &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;OK
> > gnuplot &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;4.4.0-1 &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;OK
> > libgfortran3 &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; 4.3.4-4 &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;OK
> > liblapack0 &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; 3.2.2-2 &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;OK
> > libqrupdate0 &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; 1.1.1-1 &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;OK
> > octave &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; 3.4.0-3 &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;OK
> >
> 
> could you just check if reversing to cygwin  1.7.8-1 solve the problem ?
> 
> I also noted the same problem this morning, but it was puzzling and
> NOT really repetitive.
> 
> 
> Marco
> 
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