Re: [Rd] (PR#11281) Bug in R 2.7 for over long lines (crasher+proposed

From: <ripley_at_stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 08:35:16 +0200 (CEST)

This example does not crash in R 2.7.0, R-patched nor R-devel (r45677) for me (x86_64 F8 Linux.) It also does not crash with the CRAN build of R 2.7.0 on Windows XP.

On Tue, 13 May 2008, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:

> 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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