Possible issues with equal signs in locals about stata-gtools HOT 4 CLOSED

Sure, but it's also low-hanging fruit. I am also working on multi-threaded support for Windows but it's proving a bit tricky. As for OSX, a port is on hold until I can get someone to compile on Apple hardware for me. I tried and failed to set up a virtual machine with OSX, so I don't have an ETA for that anymore.

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I have no way of checking, since I don't have older Stata versions, but if I just use the extended macro subinstr, will that fix any potential issues? I would assume so, since the solution there is to use extended macro functions, but I can't actually check. I mean, on my machine subinstr handled a string with 10,000 characters just fine.

I generally prefer to have the right hand evaluate so this is very much intentional, but I hadn't realized older versions might have an issue with it.

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That's correct, replacing all cases of local ... = with their extended macro counterparts will fix the issue. That's something I had to do for reghdfe after a few bug reports:

sergiocorreia/reghdfe@7c87214

That said, my advice would be to leave it in the backburner. Much more useful would be MP support for Windows, OSX support, etc., as the overlap between Stata 12 and gtools is probably low.

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This should be fixed in version 0.6.10- (master branch).

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