This backend calls the sqp function of core Octave, a sequential
quadratic programming algorithm with BFGS, so that it is usable with the
nonlin_min frontend of the optim package. sqp honours
constraints for the returned result, but not necessarily during the
course of optimization.
   
Compared to calling sqp directly (see
 sqp),
     
+-Inf by default, not to +-realmax. 
The value of the additional setting octave_sqp_tolerance, a
tolerance to several termination criteria, is passed as the respective
argument to Octaves sqp, which provides the default sqrt
(eps).  The settings TolFun, TolX, fract_prec,
max_fract_change, Display, and user_interaction are
not honoured.
   
Returned value cvg will be 1 for success and 0 or
-4 for failure (see
 nonlin_min for meaning).  Returned
structure outp will have the fields niter, nobjf,
and lambda.
   
The default of MaxIter is that of Octaves sqp (100).