crash in test_sparse

[John W. Eaton]

In the last few days I started noticing this problem while running
make check:

  Fixed test scripts:

    test_sparse.m ..........................................error: memory 
exhausted or requested size too large for range of Octave's index type -- 
execution of /home/jwe/src/octave-trunk/test/fntests.m failed
  error: assert (pds \ xs,sparse (pdf \ xs, true),100 * eps) expected
  Compressed Column Sparse (rows = 11, cols = 11, nnz = 11)

    (2, 1) ->  0.50000
    (1, 2) ->  1
    (3, 3) ->  0.33333
    (4, 4) ->  0.25000
    (5, 5) ->  0.20000
    (6, 6) ->  0.16667
    (7, 7) ->  0.14286
    (8, 8) ->  0.12500
    (9, 9) ->  0.11111
    (10, 10) ->  0.10000
    (11, 11) ->  1
  but got
  Compressed Column Sparse (rows = 10, cols = 11, nnz = 10)

    (2, 1) ->  0.50000
    (1, 2) ->  1
    (3, 3) ->  0.33333
    (4, 4) ->  0.25000
    (5, 5) ->  0.20000
    (6, 6) ->  0.16667
    (7, 7) ->  0.14286
    (8, 8) ->  0.12500
    (9, 9) ->  0.11111
    (10, 10) ->  0.10000
  Dimensions don't match


Is anyone else seeing this problem?

I do see it with a fresh build of the current CVS sources but not with
a fresh build fo 2.9.15 so I'm trying to isolate which change caused
this, but it would be helpful if someone else could confirm that they
also see the bug.

Thanks,

jwe