Re: Malformed sav file - need help for investigation

[Ben Pfaff]

I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, but PSPP has a test case that
intentionally provokes this error message. I'm attaching the file it
produces.

I guess the ultimate goal here should be to fix tiamo's package?

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 9:42 AM Ignácz, István <istvan.ignacz@neticle.com>
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I think this is not the usual topic on this list, excuse me if you find it
> off-topic.
>
> I'm facing a tough bug in my software and I'm looking for some help to be
> able to take the next steps.
>
> Our software generates sav files via tiamo's package:
> https://packagist.org/packages/tiamo/spss
> Usually, everything works fine, but in some cases, we generate malformed
> files. In this case, SPSS crashes without any notice, however, PSPP at
> least gives a useful error message:
> Variable index n refers to long string continuation.
>
> I cannot reproduce this issue on my side, so I tried to reverse engineer
> the PSPP codebase to find any cases when it could occur. So far not with
> much luck.
>
> Could you help me with some example cases?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> István
>

sys-file.sav
Description: Binary data