[Gretl-devel] bug which is new in 1.7.4

[Allin Cottrell]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> 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 don't think the resample changes in 1.7.4 touched the case of 
matrices (where the dataset is not actually messed with).

This shouldn't be a platform-specific thing, so info derived from 
running on Windows should be sufficient.  

Allin.