Hi, gretl does not crash under latest git version using Ubuntu. After a minute or so, I get the following error: <err ? a = bread(bun.output) "output": no such item Error executing script: halting </err> Best Artur Am 16.10.23 um 17:18 schrieb Federico Fiorani: > Hi everybody, > the following script crashes on Windows (gretl 2023c-git build date > 2023-10-07) when I try to convert to a bundle. > > <code> > bundle bun = null > bun.header = "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml" > bun.URL = "http://dataservices.imf.org/REST/SDMX_JSON.svc/Dataflow > <http://dataservices.imf.org/REST/SDMX_JSON.svc/Dataflow>" > curl(&bun) > a = bread(bun.output) > </code> > > Does anyone have the same problem? > > Best > > Federico > > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-users mailing list -- gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it > To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-users-leave(a)gretlml.univpm.it > Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 11:18 AM Federico Fiorani <deferoci(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Gretl should not crash in this case (or ever!), but the usage of bread() in this script is wrong. bread() is designed to read a bundle from file, and the argument should be a filename. You are passing instead bun.output, a string holding 100429 bytes of JSON, much longer than is expected for a filename. And this results in a buffer overflow. This is now fixed in git: we flag an error if the putative "filename" is too long. So running the script above now gives: Filename too long, 100429 bytes Terminated on error But you don't really want bread() at all in this context: bun.output itself is already the JSON you're looking for. Allin.