[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#839003: Bug#839003: octave-general: SHA1 crashes Octave

[Rafael Laboissière]

Control: tags -1 confirmed
Control: tags -1 wontfix
Control: forwarded -1 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49206

* Francesco Potortì <Potorti at isti.cnr.it> [2016-09-28 10:39]:

>> Control: tags - confirmed
>>
>> Indeed, Octave crashes on amd64 when SHA1 is involved.  However, it 
>> works on i386:
>>
>> octave:2> SHA1(1) 
>> ans =
>>
>>   191   139    69    48   216   210    70   221   116   172    83   161    52   113   187   161   121    65   223   247
>>
>>
>> This difference in behavior between i386 and amd64 is perhaps related to 
>> the different sizeof(long) in both architectures.
>>
>> I think that this is not a Debian-specific problem.
>
> Ok, I filed a report on Savannah.

Thanks.  You have probably seen the comments posted on the Savannah 
bug page:

Andreas Weber: "Confirmed. Just a note: The 4.2 release of Octave 
includes a new function 'hash' which is also capable of calculating SHA1"

Mike Miller: "Yeah I guess that this SHA1 function in general is a 
candidate for dropping from the package rather than fixing once 4.2 is 
released."

I am hereby tagging this bug report "wontfix", accordingly.

Rafael