As suggested on IRC, I tried to reproduce this bug on my not-getting-any-younger laptop, and I did manage (using octave from backports, since it's squeeze). I include CPU info, since this seems to be relevant.
roland@elastomir ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP-M 2200+ stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 663.400 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up bogomips : 1326.80 clflush size : 32 cache_alignment : 32 address sizes : 34 bits physical, 32 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid roland@elastomir ~ $ octave GNU Octave, version 3.6.2 Copyright (C) 2012 John W. Eaton and others. This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For details, type `warranty'. Octave was configured for "i486-pc-linux-gnu". Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org. Please contribute if you find this software useful. For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html Read http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to submit bug reports. For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'. octave:1> [0 1; 2 3]*[4 5; 6 7] panic: Illegal instruction -- stopping myself... Instruction non permise roland@elastomir ~ $ Roland. -- Roland Mas Qu'est-ce qui est jaune, qui pèse deux cents kilos et qui chante ? Un sumotori dans sa salle de bains. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
