On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 01:03:05PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> The interaction with gdb is odd. An error is found, but the octave
> command line appears regardless. I think octave catches the error,
> but doesn't panic inside gdb. So no backtrace is available. The gdb
> behaviour is:
> $ gdb octave
> GNU gdb (GDB) 7.4.1-debian
> Reading symbols from /usr/bin/octave...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Please install octave-dbg and try again (not that I think it will help,
but maybe we are lucky just once and get more information).
> Is the octave-core file useful?
The default answer to that question is "no". In fact, I cannot remember
a single case where the octave-core file was of use.
Thomas
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