Re: [Gnuplot-info] Problem with set range

[Philipp D. <phi...@we...>]

On 2015-05-26 12:38, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>> From: Philipp Dijkstal
>> To: gnuplot-info
>> Cc:
>> Date: 2015/5/26, Tue 18:26
>> Subject: [Gnuplot-info] Problem with set range
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> from the user manual p.174 it seems clear to me that the following input
>> should yield the same output.
>>
>> 1.
>> set term pngcairo
>> set out 'outfile'
>> set yrange [ :6]
>> plot 'datafile'  u ...
>>
>> 2.
>> set term pngcairo
>> set out 'outfile'
>> plot [ ] [ :6] 'datafile' u ...
>>
>> However only the second version works for me. For the first one I get a
>> "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" response from bash.
>> I use Arch Linux and gnuplot 5.0.0 from the official repository.
>>
>> I wonder if this is a bug or if I did something wrong. I tried to
>> reproduce this error with a simplified data file but the error did not
>> occur.
>> I would append the gnuplot script and the data file here but I don't
>> know if this is allowed for a mailing list.
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>> Philipp
>>
> Philipp
>
>
> I cannot say certainly what you met is a bug or not at the moment
> because of lack of detailed information.
>
> However, I have been using many scripts setting the plot range in the
> same way as your example 1 on gnuplot on windows, cygwin ans ubuntu
> (mainly 5.1 (cvs) built myself) without problems.
>
> Can you provide a small script that reproduces segmentation fault on your computer?
>
> Tatsuro
>
Hello Tatsuro,

thank you for your quick reply.
When I tried to reproduce the error I found that I had a a comma at the 
end of the plot command, even though no more input was following. 
Gnuplot did not complain about it.
After I corrected the syntax, both ways to set the y range worked again.
I still don't know why the behavior was different but I regard this 
problem as solved.

Philipp