Re: [OctDev] make check fails with Octave 2.9.5 and octave-forge 2005.06.13 due to galois fields

[David B. <Dav...@mo...>]

Thomas Weber wrote:

>Hi, 
>
>isequal in Octave 2.9.5 can't handle galois fields, therefore 
>	comms('test')
>fails:
>
>octave:2> poly1 = gf([2,4,5,1],3);
>octave:3> isequal(poly1, poly1)
>error: find: wrong type argument `galois'
>error: evaluating assignment expression near line 139, column 11
>error: evaluating if command near line 136, column 5
>error: evaluating if command near line 52, column 3
>error: called from `__isequal__' in file
>`/usr/share/octave/2.9.5/m/general/__isequal__.m'
>error: evaluating assignment expression near line 28, column 12
>error: evaluating if command near line 27, column 3
>error: called from `isequal' in file
>`/usr/share/octave/2.9.5/m/general/isequal.m'
>
>Regards
>	Thomas
>
>  
>
Ok, I don't see a simple way of adapting __isequal__.m to work with
galois fields in a generic way. The fix will be to add an overload
function for isequal for galois fields and use dispatch to map it to
isequal. I add the attached function to octave-forge in the main/comms
directory..

D.


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