Bug#556652: octave can't load files created by libmatio

[Bas Zoetekouw]

Hi Sylvestre!

You wrote:

> > It is not an octave bug. I just tried with Scilab and it causes a
> > problem with Scilab too.
> 
> Ah! Here's a bit more concise test case, which write only 1 integer:
[snip]
> Attached are the output file from this program (foo.mat) and the fiel as
> matlab itself saves it, generated by:
>   > load('foo.mat');
>   > save('foo_matlab.mat','test') 
> in Matlab 2009b.
> Note that the file are 1 byte different in length.

I've analysed these files bij hand (well, using a bit of perl), and as
far as I can determine, both of them comply the the file structure as
described in [1].

I'll proceed to check why libmathio and octave can't read it.

Greetings,
Bas.


[1] http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/pdf_doc/matlab/matfile_format.pdf

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