[Rd] memory allocation questions

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 Mark.Bravington at csiro.au wrote:

> My second question is: 
> 
> if I do use the R replacements, what are their names nowadays?

> R-EXTS refers to Calloc, Realloc and Free, but these aren't exported by
> R.DLL (for R1.9.0 or 1.9.1) and I couldn't find mention of any name
> change in the NEWS file.

There is no change.  R-exts does say you must include the appropriate 
headers, in this case include/R_ext/RS.h.  They are defines, and not just 
simple calls to entry points.  I'll leave you to take a closer look.

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