Re: [Rd] Bug in R 2.7 for over long lines (crasher+proposed fix!) (PR#11456)

From: <r-ml_at_nn7.de>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 07:50:07 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 11:10 +0200, maechler_at_stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:
> Hi Soeren,
> >>>>> "SS" == Soeren Sonnenburg <bugreports_at_nn7.de>
> >>>>> on Sat, 10 May 2008 05:32:14 +0000 writes:
>
> SS> On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 09:38 +0200, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> >> bugreports_at_nn7.de wrote: > OK, I am just sending it here
> >> too as it looks like r-devel_at_r-project.org > is not the
> >> right place:
> >> >
> >> I think it was seen there too, just that noone got around
> >> to reply. In R-bugs, there's a filing system so that it
> >> won't be completely forgotten...
>
> SS> Looks like no one cares about this :(
>
> Just "looks like" but it aint...
>
> SS> What should I do now? I mean I pointed directly to the
> SS> bug and did show how it could be fixed....
>
> I'm not among the parse experts within R-core, but I think the
> main problem with your report is that
> you talk about a crash but do not provide "self-contained
> reproducible" code to produce such a crash, but just the
> assertion that you get crashes when working on R <-> Swig
> interaction.
> Can you construct simple R code producing the crash?

No. I put however difficult autogenerated (~800k big!) .R code that will crash R 2.7 at http://nn7.de/debugging/Features.R for everyone to enjoy :)

Sourcing it will crash R2.7.0 (without my fix) but not 2.8.

Soeren



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