--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2005-09-07  Bill Denney  <denney@seas.upenn.edu>
+
+	* dirfns.cc (Fglob): Doc fix.
+
+2005-09-07  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
+
+	* ov-struct.cc (Fstruct): Allow struct (zeros (0, N)) to create a
+	0xN struct array.
+
 2005-09-04  David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr>
 
 	* DLD-FUNCTIONS/colamd.c (COLAMD_NAME, SYMAMD_NAME): New macros

--- a/src/dirfns.cc
+++ b/src/dirfns.cc
@@ -551,10 +551,11 @@
 DEFUN (glob, args, ,
   "-*- texinfo -*-\n\
 @deftypefn {Built-in Function} {} glob (@var{pattern})\n\
-Given an array of strings in @var{pattern}, return a cell array of file\n\
-names that match any of them, or an empty cell array if no patterns match.\n\
-Tilde expansion is performed on each of the patterns before looking for\n\
-matching file names.  For example,\n\
+Given an array of strings (as a char array or a cell array) in\n\
+@var{pattern}, return a cell array of file names that match any of\n\
+them, or an empty cell array if no patterns match.  Tilde expansion\n\
+is performed on each of the patterns before looking for matching file\n\
+names.  For example,\n\
 \n\
 @example\n\
 @group\n\
@@ -562,7 +563,8 @@
      @result{} \"/vmlinuz\"\n\
 @end group\n\
 @end example\n\
-@end deftypefn")
+@end deftypefn\n\
+@seealso{ls,dir}")
 {
   octave_value retval;
 

--- a/src/ov-struct.cc
+++ b/src/ov-struct.cc
@@ -519,11 +519,16 @@
 
   int nargin = args.length ();
 
-  // struct([]) returns an empty struct.
-  // XXX FIXME XXX should struct() also create an empty struct?
+  // struct ([]) returns an empty struct.
+
+  // struct (empty_matrix) returns an empty struct with the same
+  // dimensions as the empty matrix.
+
+  // Note that struct () creates a 1x1 struct with no fields for
+  // compatibility with Matlab.
 
   if (nargin == 1 && args(0).is_empty () && args(0).is_real_matrix ())
-    return octave_value (Octave_map ());
+    return octave_value (Octave_map (args(0).dims ()));
     
   // Check for "field", VALUE pairs.