[Gretl-devel] 'catch' problem (in SVAR package)

Hi, a colleague asked me about a non-convergence problem with his application of the SVAR package. I can replicate the error, which gives: ... Das Konvergenzkriterium wurde nicht getroffen *** error in function estC "scoreC(&g, &theta, &dat)", "PseudoHessC(&H, &theta, &dat)") called by function SVAR_estimate Fehler bei Skriptausführung: Stopp ... (BTW, this is a type-2 "C" model call, if you want to pinpoint the exact line in the code that is called.) Sorry for the German, but this actually gave me a thought here: the error message ("convergence criterion not met", in German) comes from an internal function because it is translated. I assume it's from NRmax(), but then I wonder: isn't Jack's use of 'catch' supposed to suppress this error message or at least suppress the interruption? thanks, sven