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

On Sun, 20 Sep 2015, Allin Cottrell wrote: > 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.) I found something in our lexer that, under certain very specific conditions, might produce a crash (and quite likely in an OS-dependent way). The fix is in CVS and new snapshots. I wonder if this might deal with the problem Oleh found on Windows XP? Allin _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel