[Rd] memory bug in is.na[n]() (PR#952)

[Thomas Lumley]

On Mon, 28 May 2001 maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:

> I've forgotten to submit this as bug report
> (and haven't easily seen how to debug).
>
> The bug is both for  is.na() and is.nan()  {which makes much sense since
> 					the C code of the two is very similar!};
> only one is shown below.

I think I've found it - I'll do a bit more testing.

Incidentally, on my machine if you do

gctorture()
is.nan(NULL)
is.nan(NULL)
is.nan(NULL)
...

it happens precisely on the second invocation.

	-thomas

>
> Martin
>
> ------- start of forwarded message -------
> From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
> To: R-core@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: another is.nan  BUG  found by gctorture-testing demo(is.things)
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 14:51:06 +0200
>
> demo() being part of strict tests (since this morning),
> reveals another bug in is.nan()
> in both branches, but already in 1.2.2
> (ie. certainly not caused by Peter's recent fix) :
>
>  gctorture(FALSE) # default
>  is.nan(NULL)
>  #-> logical(0)
>
>  gctorture()
>  is.nan(NULL)
>
> Looks pretty strange :  {calling it subsequently does sometimes not reproduce}
>
> > gctorture()
> > is.nan(NULL)
> $names
>  [1] "is.nan() applied to non-(list or vector)"
>  [2] ""
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> Warning message:
> is.nan() applied to non-(list or vector) in: is.nan(NULL)
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Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley@u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle
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