--- a/liboctave/Array.cc	Sat Jun 06 22:01:10 2009 -0700
+++ b/liboctave/Array.cc	Sun Jun 07 08:15:31 2009 +0200
@@ -2476,7 +2476,7 @@
   const T *src = data ();
   octave_idx_type nel = nelem ();
   const T zero = T ();
-  if (n < 0)
+  if (n < 0 || n >= nel)
     {
       // We want all elements, which means we'll almost surely need
       // to resize. So count first, then allocate array of exact size.
@@ -2509,6 +2509,8 @@
             }
           if (k < n)
             retval.resize (k);
+          octave_idx_type *rdata = retval.fortran_vec ();
+          std::reverse (rdata, rdata + k);
         }
       else
         {