[Rd] object.size() bug?

[Roger D. Peng]

Would it make sense for 'object.size()' to do the same thing for 
external pointers as it does for environments?

-roger

Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>>"Paul" == Paul Roebuck <roebuck at odin.mdacc.tmc.edu>
>>>>>>    on Thu, 4 Aug 2005 00:29:03 -0500 (CDT) writes:
> 
> 
>     Paul> Can someone confirm the following as a problem:
> 
> Yes, I can.  No promiss for a fix in the very near future
> though.
> 
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
> 
> 
>>>Can someone confirm the following as a problem:
>>>
>>>R> setClass("Foo", representation(.handle = "externalptr"))
>>>R> object.size(new("Foo"))
>>>Error in object.size(new("Foo")) : object.size: unknown type 22
>>>R> R.version.string
>>>[1] "R version 2.1.1, 2005-06-20"
>>>
>>>R-2.1.1/src/include/Rinternals.h
>>>#define EXTPTRSXP   22    /* external pointer */
>>>
>>>R-2.1.1/src/main/size.c:
>>>objectsize(SEXP s) has no case for external pointers
> 
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