[Gretl-devel] Re: spurious description string in pointerized series arg

On 21/09/2025 23:32, Sven Schreiber wrote: > > The point is that the top-level series "e" which is passed as a > pointer arg to the function (factcoint_test) gets a spurious and more > or less arbitrary description string, sometimes including > non-printable characters. Actually sometimes the correct description > happens; in that case please just run the script again. To trigger > the bug it seems necessary to have an enclosing loop. Confirmed with current git, with a twist. If you store the output of the getinfo() function to a named variable, as in foo = getinfo(e) then "foo" doesn't contain the "description" key at all. It looks as if some cleanup is taking place at the wrong point.