Re: Octave crashes on old MEX-files: how can I detect/prevent this?

[Julien Bect]

Le 06/12/2016 à 19:33, Mike Miller a écrit :
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 09:58:30 +0100, Julien Bect wrote:
> > But Kai's solution really solves my problem, by providing a mean to detect
> > that the MEX-file must be recompiled.
> I guess my claim is that it is not a guaranteed hack. I think it is only
> because your mex file is loading a different liboctinterp into the same
> Octave process space, that *something* is being corrupted in memory, and
> there is no guarantee that the error you are seeing is reliable or
> meaningful in any way, other than "Octave is screwed up now".

Ok I get it.  Thanks for the clarification.

But isn't this a serious problem for Octave users ?

What about installed packages, when a user upgrades from 4.0.2 to 4.2.0 ?

(perhaps should we move this discussion to the maintainers list now ?)