From a8888f4c70397f617788c55c763936fe66e7f69a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Houtan Bastani <houtan@dynare.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 16:17:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] preprocessor: fix error message for InitParamStatement
 clone/reindex method

---
 preprocessor/NumericalInitialization.cc | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/preprocessor/NumericalInitialization.cc b/preprocessor/NumericalInitialization.cc
index 08a172f8a..501f202b5 100644
--- a/preprocessor/NumericalInitialization.cc
+++ b/preprocessor/NumericalInitialization.cc
@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ InitParamStatement::cloneAndReindexSymbIds(DataTree &dynamic_datatree, SymbolTab
     }
   catch (...)
     {
-      cerr << "ERROR: encountered in InitParamStatement::cloneAndReindexSymbIds. Should not arrive here" << endl;
+      cerr << "ERROR: A variable in the init_param statement was not found in the symbol table" << endl
+           << "       This likely means that you have declared a varexo that is not used in the model" << endl;
       exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
     }
 }