[Gretl-devel] Re: spurious description string in pointerized series arg
On 21/09/2025 23:32, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Hi,
the attached script files demonstrate a bug. Please run the
bugtest_driver.inp script which includes the other script
port_bugtest.inp. The example uses the built-in example dataset abdata.
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.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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