On Thu, 25 Dec 2014, Andreï | Андрей Викторович wrote:

> Today I came across an error that crashes my latest (straight from the CVS)
> compilation of gretl.
> Consider the following sample file. I import it in the programme via
> drag-and-dropping; it says that the data have been interpreted as
> *undated*, and I choose “Yes” to set up the time series, and select the
> “Hourly” option, but the command log looks suspicious:
>
> # Log started 2014-12-25 01:07
> # Record of session commands.  Please note that this will
> # likely require editing if it is to be run as a script.
> open /home/fifis/Downloads/bitc-test.csv
> 24 1:01 --time-series
>
> So the last line seems severely truncated from the beginning.

It's missing the "setobs" command-word. That's now fixed in CVS.

> OK, let's try to compact the data via “Data” — “Compact data”. Wham! 
> Crash. When I run gretl GUI from the command prompt (just to witness 
> the crash and warning messages), it says “Segmentation fault”. 
> Originally, I had used a larger data file, but it crashes in the 
> same manner, so the attachment is a minimum working example.

Thanks for the test case! This is now fixed in CVS and snapshots.

Allin

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