Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl crashes while doing a nested ARIMA loop

On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Andreï | Андрей Викторович wrote: The problem you discovered needs to be fixed, and we thank you for spotting it. I'm not quite sure what the fix should be, though: the crash occurs because you're nesting two loops, both of which have the --progressive option. This leads to memory corruption and has presumably been there forever; I can only say that nesting two progressive loops is something that nobody, to my knowledge, ever attempted before, basically before (from a semantic point of view) ot makes little sense to do so: the --progressive option acts like a binary switch (on/off); you normally don't want to turn the light on if it's on already, do you? ;) I can see 3 alternatives here: 1) Take actions to fix the memory corruption 2) forbid the nesting of progressive loops (which makes no sense anyway) 3) Ignore the innermost --progressive flag if present. I'd go for 3). Allin? ------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------