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bug #38935: abs function modifies int64 argument vector

Submitted by:  None
Submitted on:  Wed 08 May 2013 01:09:03 PM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Incorrect Result
Status: FixedAssigned to: None
Originator Name: Jeff CunninghamOriginator Email: -unavailable-
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 3.2.4
Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Wed 08 May 2013 04:14:49 PM UTC, comment #9:

You should actually be able to get 3.6.2,
odd versions are not usually official releases.

Carlo de Falco <cdf>
Project Member
Wed 08 May 2013 02:33:45 PM UTC, comment #8:

Okay, so looks like the bug has been fixed in a newer version, closing report.

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh>
Project Administrator
Wed 08 May 2013 02:33:12 PM UTC, comment #7:

> 3.2.4 is the latest version of Octave available on Ubuntu 12.10 without compiling from source.


There is a recent PPA for Octave, created Can you reproduce this problem in a recent version of Octave?

https://launchpad.net/~octave/+archive/stable

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh>
Project Administrator
Wed 08 May 2013 02:22:17 PM UTC, comment #6:

Okay, I had to add a repository to get 3.6.1. After that I can't reproduce the bug. So problem went away. Thanks.

Jeffrey Cunningham <jkcunningham>
Wed 08 May 2013 02:13:08 PM UTC, comment #5:

Sorry, forgot the name of 12.10.

Jeffrey Cunningham <jkcunningham>
Wed 08 May 2013 02:09:10 PM UTC, comment #4:

Read what I wrote: <b>Ubuntu 12.10</b>

Jeffrey Cunningham <jkcunningham>
Wed 08 May 2013 02:03:02 PM UTC, comment #3:

"3.2.4 is the latest version of Octave available on Ubuntu 12.10"

Where did you get that impression?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/octave

c.

Carlo de Falco <cdf>
Project Member
Wed 08 May 2013 01:56:42 PM UTC, comment #2:

3.2.4 is the latest version of Octave available on Ubuntu 12.10 without compiling from source. If I do the following:

I see:

Jeffrey Cunningham <jkcunningham>
Wed 08 May 2013 01:13:25 PM UTC, comment #1:

What are you observing? I see nothing unusual in a recent Octave version.

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh>
Project Administrator
Wed 08 May 2013 01:09:03 PM UTC, original submission:

I ran across the following odd behaviour with int64's and the abs function. It seems to be doing the absolute value in place on the input vector, though it returns the correct result:

I assume this is a bug.

Regards,
Jeff Cunningham

Anonymous

 

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