[Gretl-devel] bug which is new in 1.7.4

[Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a relatively complicated bootstrap script which works with 1.7.3 (I 
> just re-confirmed this) but stops working with 1.7.4. Gretl 1.7.4 just hangs 
> (becomes unresponsive forever, like being in an infinite loop) and has to be 
> killed by the OS. All this is on Windows XP, I cannot test on Linux before 
> the weekend (if that's needed).
>
> I haven't had time to pin down the bug yet, but I suspect it may have to do 
> with the 'resample' changes that were introduced in 1.7.4. I'm using the 
> resample command with matrices (well, the pre-1.7.4 usage).
>
> I haven't tested a recent snapshot yet, should I? I may be able to test some 
> more this afternoon (Central European time).

Debugging something like this is most likely near-impossible unless you 
provide a testcase. The smaller, the better.


Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche

r.lucchetti at univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti