[Gretl-devel] Re: SIGSEGV - dbnomics

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > On Mon, 28 Oct 2019, Marcin Błażejowski wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> simple script: >> <hansl> >> set verbose off >> open dbnomics >> >> string KRAJE = "AT BE BG CY CZ DE DK ES EE FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IT LT LU >> LV MT NL PL PT RO SK SI SE EA12 EA19 EU15 EU28" >> loop foreach KR @KRAJE --quiet >>     data Eurostat/irt_lt_mcby_q/Q.MCBY.$KR >> endloop >> </hansl> >> and we get SIGSEGV. > Thanks, Marcin. We have two separate problems here: > > * the series you want is not available for all countries. If you use the line > > string KRAJE = "AT BE BG CY CZ DE DK ES FI FR \ > HR HU IE IT LT LU LV MT NL PL PT RO SK SI SE \ > EU28" > > things are ok. > > * As for the remaining countries, the "catch" modifier make the loop go ahead > in all cases except for Estonia (EE), which provokes the segfault. > > Of course we need to robustify the dbnomics scripts to cases like these; at > any rate, segfaults shouldn't happen. I'll have a look at this later today. We weren't catching the error of no data supplied soon enough. That's now fixed in git.