Re: [Gretl-devel] a short script to crash Gretl on xp

On Sun, 20 Sep 2015, oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net wrote: > Dear Allin, > the same script goes ok on xp with p=1 and q=1; > also I copied the armax() code to gretl script file > with the same result Sorry, but by "the same result" do you mean that running the revised version of the armax() function that I sent to the list, there's still a crash on XP when p = q = 2? (Though not with p = q = 1?) > Of course xp is a very old stuff but some students in post- > soviet countries and China still use it > I only may guess it's something with arithmetic in dll In my experience an actual crash always indicates a bug in gretl, even if it's not triggered on all OSes. (Tempting as it might be to believe that it's Microsoft's fault!) Well, one more thought: if you run gretl.exe with the --debug flag, do you see anything that might be of interest on stderr? (That is, in the accompanying console window.)