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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Hello Bas,

Le mercredi 02 décembre 2009 à 09:41 +0100, Bas Zoetekouw a écrit :
> 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.
Thanks for the feedback. Please let me know how it goes ;)

Sylvestre