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Deprecate audio functions loadaudio, playaudio, saveaudio, and setaudio. * NEWS: Announce deprecation. * scripts/deprecated/loadaudio.m, scripts/deprecated/playaudio.m, scripts/deprecated/saveaudio.m, scripts/deprecated/setaudio.m: Move from scripts/audio. Add deprecation warnings to code and to docstrings. * audio.txi: Remove from manual. * lin2mu.m, mu2lin.m, record.m: Remove seealso links. * scripts/deprecated/module.mk: Add to build system in deprecated directory. * scripts/audio/module.mk: Remove from build system in audio directory.
author Mike Miller <mtmiller@ieee.org>
date Sat, 31 Jan 2015 10:23:52 -0500
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1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 4.0:
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5 introduced. See the manual for more extensive documentation of the
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8 New keywords:
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10 classdef endclassdef
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11 enumeration endenumeration
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12 events endevents
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16 ** New audio functions and classes:
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18 audiodevinfo audioread
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19 audioinfo audiorecorder
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22 ** Other new classes in Octave 4.0:
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24 audioplayer inputParser
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25 audiorecorder
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27 ** Optional stricter Matlab compatibility for ranges, diagonal matrices,
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28 and permutation matrices.
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30 Octave has internal optimizations which use space-efficient storage
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31 for the three data types above. Three new functions have been added
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32 which control whether the optimizations are used (default), or whether
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33 the data types are stored as full matrices.
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35 disable_range disable_diagonal_matrix disable_permutation_matrix
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37 All three optimizations are disabled if Octave is started with the
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38 --braindead command line option.
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40 ** For compatibility with Matlab, the "backtrace" warning option is now
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41 enabled by default.
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43 ** The preference
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45 do_braindead_shortcircuit_evaluation
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49 ** The preference
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51 allow_noninteger_range_as_index
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55 Octave:noninteger-range-as-index
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58 for --traditional.
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60 ** polyeig now returns a row vector of eigenvalues rather than a matrix
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61 with the eigenvalues on the diagonal. This change was made for Matlab
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62 compatibility.
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64 ** Interpolation function changes for Matlab compatibility
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66 The interpolation method 'cubic' is now equivalent to 'pchip'
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67 for interp1, interp2, and interp3. Previously, 'cubic' was equivalent
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68 to 'spline' for interp2. This may produce different results as 'spline'
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69 has continuous 1st and 2nd derivatives while 'pchip' only has a continuous
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71 interp1 for compatibility.
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73 ** The delaunay function has been extended to accept 3-D inputs for
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74 Matlab compatibility. The delaunay function no longer plots the
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75 triangulation if no output argument is requested, instead, the
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76 triangulation is always returned. The delaunay3 function which
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79 ** The trigonometric functions asin and acos return different phase values
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80 from previous versions of Octave when the input is outside the principal
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81 branch ([-1, 1]). If the real portion of the input is greater than 1 then
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82 the limit from below is taken. If the real portion is less than 1 then the
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83 limit from above is taken. This criteria is consistent with several other
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84 numerical analysis software packages.
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88 strfind now returns an empty array when the pattern itself is empty.
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89 In previous versions of Octave, strfind matched at every character
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90 location when the pattern was empty.
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92 NEW
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93 strfind ("abc", "") => []
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94 OLD
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95 strfind ("abc", "") => [1, 2, 3, 4]
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97 ** Integer formats used in the printf family of functions now work for
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98 64-bit integers and are more compatible with Matlab when printing
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99 non-integer values. Now instead of truncating, Octave will switch
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100 the effective format to '%g' in the following circumstances:
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103 the maximum for the format specifier. For '%d', the limit is
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106 * round(x) != x or the value is outside the range allowed by the
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107 integer format specifier.
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109 There is still one difference: Matlab switches to '%e' and Octave
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110 is currently switching to '%g'.
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118 ** Z-order stacking issues with patches, grid lines, and line object
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119 plot markers for on screen display and printing have all been resolved.
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120 For 2-D plots the axis grid lines can be placed on top of the plot
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121 with set (gca, "layer", "top").
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123 ** The patch graphic object has been overhauled. It now produces visual
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124 results equivalent to Matlab even for esoteric combinations of
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127 ** The polar() plot function now draws a circular theta axis and
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130 ** linkprop has been completely re-coded for performance and Matlab
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131 compatibility. It now returns a linkprop object which must be stored
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132 in a variable for as long as the graphic objects should remain linked.
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133 To unlink properties use 'clear hlink' where hlink is the variable
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134 containing the linkprop object.
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135
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136 ** isprime has been extended to operate on negative and complex inputs.
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137
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138 ** xor has been extended to accept more than two arguments in which case
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139 it performs cumulative XOR reduction.
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140
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141 ** The following functions now support N-dimensional arrays:
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142
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143 fliplr flipud rot90
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144
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145 ** The new warning ID "Octave:data-file-in-path" replaces the three
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146 previous separate warning IDs "Octave:fopen-file-in-path",
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147 "Octave:load-file-in-path", and "Octave:md5sum-file-in-path".
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148
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149 ** Other new functions added in 4.0:
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150
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151 bandwidth
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152 cubehelix
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153 dir_in_loadpath
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154 flip
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155 frame2im
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156 hgload
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157 hgsave
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158 ichol
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159 ilu
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160 im2frame
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161 isbanded
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162 isdiag
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163 istril
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164 istriu
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165 javachk
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166 linkaxes
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167 lscov
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168 numfields
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169 qmr
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170 rotate
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171 sylvester
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172 unsetenv
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173 validateattributes
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174 zoom
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175
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176 ** inline() scheduled for eventual deprecation by Matlab
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177
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178 Functions created through the use of inline are scheduled for deprecation
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179 by Matlab. When this occurs Octave will continue to support inline
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180 functions for an indeterminate amount of time before also removing support.
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181 All new code should use anonymous functions in place of inline functions.
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182
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183 ** Deprecated functions.
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184
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185 The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 4.0 and will
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186 be removed from Octave 4.4 (or whatever version is the second major
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187 release after 4.0):
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188
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189 Function | Replacement
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190 ---------------------|------------------
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191 bicubic | interp2
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192 delaunay3 | delaunay
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193 dump_prefs | individual preference get/set routines
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194 find_dir_in_path | dir_in_loadpath
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195 finite | isfinite
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196 fmod | rem
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197 fnmatch | glob or regexp
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198 loadaudio | audioread
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199 luinc | ilu or ichol
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200 nfields | numfields
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201 octave_tmp_file_name | tempname
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202 playaudio | audioplayer
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203 saveaudio | audiowrite
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204 syl | sylvester
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205 usage | print_usage
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206
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207 allow_noninteger_range_as_index
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208 do_braindead_shortcircuit_evaluation
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209 setaudio
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210
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211 ** The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.8 and will be
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212 removed from Octave 4.2 (or whatever version is the second major
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213 release after 3.8):
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214
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215 default_save_options java_new
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216 gen_doc_cache java_unsigned_conversion
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217 interp1q javafields
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218 isequalwithequalnans javamethods
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219 java_convert_matrix re_read_readline_init_file
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220 java_debug read_readline_init_file
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221 java_invoke saving_history
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222
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223 ** The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.6 and have been
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224 removed from Octave 4.0.
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225
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226 cut polyderiv
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227 cor shell_cmd
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228 corrcoef studentize
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229 __error_text__ sylvester_matrix
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230 error_text
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231
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232 ** The following keywords were deprecated in Octave 3.8 and have been
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233 removed from Octave 4.0
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234
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235 static
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236
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237 ** The following configuration variables were deprecated in Octave 3.8
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238 and have been removed from Octave 4.0
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239
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240 CC_VERSION (now GCC_VERSION)
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241 CXX_VERSION (now GXX_VERSION)
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242
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243 ** The internal function atan2 of the sparse matrix class has been deprecated
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244 in Octave 4.0 and will be removed from Octave 4.4 (or whatever version is
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245 the second major release after 4.0). Use the Fatan2 function with sparse
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246 inputs as a replacement.
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247
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248 ** The internal class <Octave_map> was deprecated in Octave 3.8 and has
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249 been removed from Octave 4.0. Replacement classes are
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250 <octave_map> (struct array) or <octave_scalar_map> for a single structure.
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251
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252 ** The warning ID Octave:singular-matrix-div has been replaced by
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253 Octave:nearly-singular-matrix and Octave:singular-matrix.
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254
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255 ** The configure option --enable-octave-allocator has been removed.
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256 The internal class <octave_allocator> declared in oct-alloc.h has
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257 been removed. The header remains, but is deprecated. The macros to
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258 access the class (DECLARE_OCTAVE_ALLOCATOR, DEFINE_OCTAVE_ALLOCATOR,
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259 and DEFINE_OCTAVE_ALLOCATOR2) are now unconditionally defined to be
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260 empty.
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261
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262 ---------------------------------------------------------
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263
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264 See NEWS.3 for old news.