From cottrell@wfu.edu Mon Jul  6 21:16:47 2009
From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
To: gretl-devel@gretlml.univpm.it
Subject: [Gretl-devel] crash on defining matrix?
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:16:46 -0400
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I'm just about ready to put out gretl 1.8.2, but there's one
outstanding item of business.  Ignacio reported to me that he was
getting a crash from the following script:

<script>
nulldata 115
matrix trendm=t-1
</script>

I've tried at some length but I'm not able to replicate the
problem.  I'm not saying the problem doesn't exist.  Ignacio gave
me a different hard-to-replicate problem not so long ago and
eventually I found a definite, if elusive, bug.

I'm assuming that the problem ocurred while using the GUI program
in Spanish.  In my attempts at replication I've used both gretlcli
and gretl_x11, in both English and Spanish.

Can anyone else replicate the crash?  If so, could you please try
it under gdb and/or valgrind (with gretl compiled with debugging
symbols) and send me the trace?

Thanks very much,

Allin.

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From r.lucchetti@univpm.it Tue Jul  7 03:10:11 2009
From: Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti <r.lucchetti@univpm.it>
To: gretl-devel@gretlml.univpm.it
Subject: Re: [Gretl-devel] crash on defining matrix?
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:10:09 +0200
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On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> I'm just about ready to put out gretl 1.8.2, but there's one
> outstanding item of business.  Ignacio reported to me that he was
> getting a crash from the following script:
>
> <script>
> nulldata 115
> matrix trendm=t-1
> </script>

Totally off-topic, but I just wanted to say that I'd rather use the seq() 
function for that. Sorry!

Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche

r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti

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From ignacio.diaz-emparanza@ehu.es Tue Jul  7 05:36:02 2009
From: Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza <ignacio.diaz-emparanza@ehu.es>
To: gretl-devel@gretlml.univpm.it
Subject: Re: [Gretl-devel] crash on defining matrix?
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:35:58 +0200
Message-ID: <200907071135.58943.ignacio.diaz-emparanza@ehu.es>
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On Martes, 7 de Julio de 2009 09:10:09 Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti escribió:
> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > I'm just about ready to put out gretl 1.8.2, but there's one
> > outstanding item of business.  Ignacio reported to me that he was
> > getting a crash from the following script:
> >
> > <script>
> > nulldata 115
> > matrix trendm=t-1
> > </script>

The problem seems to be solved now.

I do not know why when I have done several "cvs update"s gretl begins to work 
badly. Now I uninstalled gretl completely and downloaded it enterely from the 
cvs and gretl is not producing the segmentation fault.

>
> Totally off-topic, but I just wanted to say that I'd rather use the seq()
> function for that. Sorry!

Umm... ok, now I will use 'matrix trendm=seq(0,n)' 
but I had to look for seq() in the gretl manual and 'trendm=t-1'  was so 
intuitive... ;-)) 


-- 
Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza  
DEPARTAMENTO DE ECONOMÍA APLICADA III (ECONOMETRÍA Y ESTADÍSTICA)
UPV/EHU
Avda. Lehendakari Aguirre, 83 | 48015 BILBAO
T.: +34 946013732 | F.: +34 946013754
www.et.bs.ehu.es 


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From svetosch@gmx.net Tue Jul  7 08:59:23 2009
From: Sven Schreiber <svetosch@gmx.net>
To: gretl-devel@gretlml.univpm.it
Subject: Re: [Gretl-devel] crash on defining matrix?
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:58:44 +0200
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Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza schrieb:
> On Martes, 7 de Julio de 2009 09:10:09 Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti escribió:
>> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>>> I'm just about ready to put out gretl 1.8.2, but there's one
>>> outstanding item of business.  Ignacio reported to me that he was
>>> getting a crash from the following script:
>>>
>>> <script>
>>> nulldata 115
>>> matrix trendm=t-1
>>> </script>
> 
> The problem seems to be solved now.
> 

no crash here either, with current cvs.

(I almost sent an email with "now" instead of "no", if that got through
to you, please ignore that)

-sven


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From cottrell@wfu.edu Tue Jul  7 10:01:47 2009
From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
To: gretl-devel@gretlml.univpm.it
Subject: Re: [Gretl-devel] crash on defining matrix?
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:01:46 -0400
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On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:

> The problem seems to be solved now.

OK, thanks.

> I do not know why when I have done several "cvs update"s gretl
> begins to work badly. Now I uninstalled gretl completely and
> downloaded it enterely from the cvs and gretl is not producing
> the segmentation fault.

Maybe you're doing this already, but When building gretl from CVS
I'd recommend the following routine:

cvs update -P -d
CFLAGS='-g -O2 -Wall -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-sign-compare' \
  ./configure <options>
make clean
make 2>errors
[ inspect the "errors" file ]
[ sudo ] make install

In the cvs command, -P removes local copies of files that have
been deleted in CVS, and -d ensures that if a new directory has
been added, you get a copy of that.

The CFLAGS setting on the configure line sets warnings to the max
("-Wall -W"), other than a couple of things which will produce
very verbose and not very useful output (i.e. "-Wno-foo"
suppresses warnings with regard to foo in particular).

The "make clean" step is not generally required, but I tend to do
this if I see any odd behavior from gretl.

Allin.



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