[Rd] Segmentation fault in .Call() (PR#4761)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Your expectations are wrong: please re-read the section on BUGS in the
FAQ. It *starts*:

If R executes an illegal instruction, or dies with an operating system
error message that indicates a problem in the program (as opposed to
something like "disk full"), then it is certainly a bug.  If you call
`.C()', `.Fortran()', `.External()' or `.Call()' (or `.Internal()')
yourself (or in a function you wrote), you can always crash R by using
wrong argument types (modes).  This is not a bug.

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 jerome at hivnet.ubc.ca wrote:

> Full_Name: Jerome Asselin
> Version: 1.8.0
> OS: RedHat Linux 7.2
> Submission from: (NULL) (142.103.177.13)
> 
> 
> 
> I would not expect a segmentation fault; perhaps an error message.
> 
> > .Call("log")
> Segmentation fault
> 
> This is always reproducable for me.

So you never learn from your mistakes?


We look forward to receiving your apologies.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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