Re: PSPP-BUG: AUTORECODE crash with pending transformations

[Ben Pfaff]

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
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> 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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