[Rd] Segfault with options() (PR#7078)
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Mon Jul 12 18:37:21 CEST 2004
Thank you, Deepayan:
>>>>> "Deepayan" == Deepayan Sarkar <deepayan at stat.wisc.edu>
>>>>> on Mon, 12 Jul 2004 05:46:08 +0200 (CEST) writes:
Deepayan> This is completely undocumented use of options,
Deepayan> but it does cause a segfault with r-patched and
Deepayan> r-devel on Linux:
Deepayan> options(list('digits', 'scipen'))
Deepayan> Strangely enough,
Deepayan> options(list('digits'))
Deepayan> and
Deepayan> options(list(digits = 10, scipen = 2))
Deepayan> work as might be expected.
I think I've seen where and how the problem occurs and am
currently testing an easy patch.
That will however give an error message for all calls
options( mylist )
when mylist is a list that has
length(names(mylist)) != length(mylist)
You weren't making a "feature request" in the other direction
where you?
Regards,
Martin Maechler
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