[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#530858: octave3.0: Unable to write files bigger than 2Go

[Rafael Laboissiere]

package octave3.0
tags 530858 confirmed upstream
forwarded 530858 https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2009-May/014461.html
thanks

* John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org> [2009-05-28 07:59]:

> On 28-May-2009, David Kremer wrote:
> 
> | My system is unable to write file bigger than 2Go with octave on
> | i386 platform.
> | 
> | A script to reproduce it :
> | 
> | %% octave  script %%
> | fd = fopen( "test.bin" , "wb" ) ;
> | for k = [ 1:300 ]
> |     fwrite( fd , randn(1024,1024) , "double");
> | end ;
> | fclose( fd ) ;
> |     
> | ls -lh
> | %% end of script %%
> | 
> | The file should be bigger than 2Go, but his size remains 2Go.
> 
> This is a known problem, and isn't really something that the people
> making packages for Debian are likely to fix.

Thanks for your feedback, John.  I am tagging this bug report
accordingly.

-- 
Rafael