Re: [Gretl-devel] gretl 2015d crashes on opening attached stata file
On Sun, 6 Dec 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 06.12.2015 um 21:18 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Sun, 6 Dec 2015, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Sven. I'll try to get to the bottom of this. IIRC, the Stata
>> 117 format is meant to support very big files and the binary
>> "signposts" telling you where to read within the file are 64-bit
>> integers. Handling these on 32-bit Windows requires some sort of
>> bodge, and apparently our current bodge is not successful.
>
> This is quite confusing. I've made some changes and put in more
> error-checking and debugging, so hopefully if it still crashes we can
> get a better idea of where the error is. I'm afraid I'm not able to test
> on 32-bit Windows myself.
If it is purely a 32bit thing, what about 32bit Linux?
Hmm, that could be a problem too, but if so, relatively easy to
solve by setting _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 in the build.
Allin