[Gretl-devel] bug which is new in 1.7.4

[Allin Cottrell]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> I haven't been able to find a stripped-down testcase so far; 
> however, I have some more information on my case -- sorry for 
> the longish explanation, but that's all I can come up with. I 
> could prepare a non-stripped-down testcase tomorrow if that's 
> useful.

Yes, a non-stripped-down testcase would still be helpful.

> BTW, during debugging (using a bunch of 'funcerr' statements), I 
> stumbled over other quirks:
> 
> 1) At some point I got an error saying "IF depth exceeded" or 
> something like that. Now I don't nest that many IF blocks, so I 
> guess this happened because I repeatedly interrupted functions 
> in the middle of IF blocks by using 'funcerr'. But that suggests 
> that some "stacks" (or whatever they're called) are not properly 
> cleaned up when a function exits with an error...

Yes, I suppose that must be the case.

> 2) For weeks now I have often got errors about allegedly 
> "missing values found" which were all bogus. These errors are 
> not robust...

This sort of flakiness sounds like a memory-management issue.
I can run your test case through valgrind.

> Thanks for reading until the end!

And thanks for writing to the end.

Allin.