[Gretl-devel] matrix declaration in a pakage

[Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza]

On Monday 09 July 2007 21:35:27 Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:
> > On Saturday 07 July 2007 00:04:37 Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > > On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:
> > > > I tried now with the current Windows snaphot and the problem is
> > > > there...
> > >
> > > I may have failed to do a proper update with the last Windows
> > > build.  There is now a new one in place.  I've tested it on XP
> > > (both in English and in Spanish, just to make sure!) and I'm
> > > getting the correct behaviour.
> > >
> > > Allin.
> >
> > ??
> >  I obtain "unespecified error"  with this version as well.
>
> I have no idea what's happening here, but I have built another
> version that has more some error checks.
>
> http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl_install.exe
>
> Allin

Sorry I think yesterday I didn't refresh the internet explorer cache so I 
didn't download the updated file.

I just downloaded now, correctly, the current windows snaphot and the matrix 
declaration problem seems to be solved. But something else has been broken 
(in Windows and Linux):
I cannot use a parameter "series *Y" in the package.
I modified the simple "matrixdec" package to show you this problem, you may 
find it in the attachment. The output of the PACKAGE execution (with series 
Ct from data3-6) is:

-------------
? matrix inreg
? cc = matrixdec2(Ct, &inreg)
argv[0] is of wrong type (got series, should be series *)
Los tipos de datos no tienen la estructura adecuada para poder
realizar la operación
-------------
 (The data types have not the proper structure to do the
operation)

It seems like the package is not passing correctly the "&" symbol to gretl.
This occurs in Windows, but now also in Linux.




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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gretl-functions>
<gretl-function-package name="matrixdec2" ID="1184060255" minver="1.6.5">
<author>Ignacio</author>
<version>1.0</version>
<date>2007-07-10</date>
<description>New beta testing of some package features</description>
<gretl-function name="matrixdec2" private="0">
 <params count="2">
  <param name="Y" type="seriesref"/>
  <param name="inreg" type="matrixref"/>
 </params>
 <return name="Y" type="series"/>
<code>matrix inreg = I(3)
scalar lo = lastobs(Y)
scalar lo1 = lastobs(Y)+1
genr Y[lo] = lo1
</code>
</gretl-function>
</gretl-function-package>
</gretl-functions>