Error with more than 2^31-1 observations about stata-gtools

[mcaceresb]

Re-open because technically it hasn't been fixed. It just throws the correct error now.

[miserton]

Any update on this bug - is it correctable now?

[mcaceresb]

@miserton Not afaik. I would contact StataCorp to ask about updates to this point, since I cannot fix it until they update the SPI. Sorry!

[miserton]

I reached out to StataCorp:

The stplugin.h has been frozen so that we do not make any changes that could break commands that are still using this code. For 64-bit integer support we recommend working with Java or Python code instead of the older 32-bit C plugin limits.

Unless gtools could call the C code through Java or Python, it doesn't look like the 2.1B limitation will be overcome.

[mcaceresb]

@miserton That's a bit of a strange answer since changing stplugin.h in particular would only involve adding a long long type (and in my system long is 64-bit anyway). I always thought the issue were the internals, and that chancing the internal function to take 64-bit input was difficult for some reason. But I don't really know.

In any case, you are right this is unlikely to be resolved any time soon, if ever.