Re: PSPP-BUG: AUTORECODE crash with pending transformations

[Ben Pfaff]

I'm glad to hear that! My main contact with users is through bug reports,
which doesn't tell me how many people use PSPP and find that it works
well.

On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 1:20 PM Frans Houweling <fhouweling@email.it>
<blp-forward@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> If the remaining bugs are like this one, congratulations! I play with
> PSPP every day and find it as stable as a rock.
>
> On 3/3/24 21:37, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > I applied a fix for this bug. A general solution to the larger problem
> > eludes me, so maybe
> > other bugs in this general category will surface later (regrettably).
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 10:55 AM Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> >> Thank you for the report!
> >>
> >> This raises a tricky issue in the PSPP source code which spans
> >> a few different procedures. For now, the easiest way to avoid the
> >> problem is to avoid scratch variables (just remove all the "#"s).
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 9:28 AM Frans Houweling via Bug-gnu-pspp
> >> <bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org> wrote:
> >>> current> pspp issue.sps
> >>>                                       Variables
> >>> ╭───────────────────┬────────┬────────────┬─────┬─────┬─────────┬──────┬───────╮
> >>> │                   │        │ Measurement│     │     │ │ Print│ Write │
> >>> │Name               │Position│    Level   │ Role│Width│Alignment│Format│
> >>> Format│
> >>> ├───────────────────┼────────┼────────────┼─────┼─────┼─────────┼──────┼───────┤
> >>> │acronymCauseOfDeath│       1│Nominal     │Input│    6│Left │A6    │A6    
> >>>  │
> >>> │initialCauseOfDeath│       2│Nominal     │Input│   32│Left │A92   │A92   
> >>>  │
> >>> │sexIt              │       3│Nominal     │Input│    7│Left │A7    │A7    
> >>>  │
> >>> ╰───────────────────┴────────┴────────────┴─────┴─────┴─────────┴──────┴───────╯
> >>>
> >>>                     Recoding fullCauseOfDeath into causeOfDeath.
> >>> ╭───────────────────────────────────┬──────┬───────────────────────────────────╮
> >>> │                                   │  New
> >>> │                                   │
> >>> │Old Value                          │ Value│            Value
> >>> Label            │
> >>> ├───────────────────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────────────────┤
> >>> │020108 - di cui tumori maligni     │     1│020108 - di cui tumori
> >>> maligni     │
> >>> │della trachea, dei bronchi e dei   │      │della trachea, dei bronchi e
> >>> dei   │
> >>> │polmoni                            │ │polmoni                            
> >>> │
> >>> │020114 - di cui tumori maligni     │     2│020114 - di cui tumori
> >>> maligni     │
> >>> │della prostata                     │      │della
> >>> prostata                     │
> >>> │07     - malattie del sistema      │     3│07     - malattie del
> >>> sistema      │
> >>> │circolatorio                       │ │circolatorio                       
> >>> │
> >>> │070102 - du cui altre malattie     │     4│070102 - du cui altre
> >>> malattie     │
> >>> │ischemiche del cuore               │      │ischemiche del
> >>> cuore               │
> >>> │0704   - altre malattie del sistema│     5│0704   - altre malattie del
> >>> sistema│
> >>> │circolatorio                       │ │circolatorio                       
> >>> │
> >>> │0802   - polmonite                 │     6│0802   -
> >>> polmonite                 │
> >>> ╰───────────────────────────────────┴──────┴───────────────────────────────────╯
> >>> pspp: src/data/case.c:277: case_data_idx: Assertion `idx <
> >>> c->proto->n_widths' failed.
> >>> ******************************************************
> >>> You have discovered a bug in PSPP.  Please report this
> >>> to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org.  Please include this entire
> >>> message, *plus* several lines of output just above it.
> >>> For the best chance at having the bug fixed, also
> >>> include the syntax file that triggered it and a sample
> >>> of any data file used for input.
> >>> proximate cause:     Assertion Failure/Abort
> >>> version:             GNU pspp 2.0.0-g928c1d
> >>> host_system:         x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> >>> build_system:        x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> >>> locale_dir:          /usr/local/share/locale
> >>> compiler version:    11.2.0
> >>> ******************************************************
> >>> Aborted
> >>> current>
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