[Rd] object.size() bug?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 8/5/2005 8:39 AM, Roger D. Peng wrote:
>> Would it make sense for 'object.size()' to do the same thing for
>> external pointers as it does for environments?
>
> I would think so.  For those who haven't looked, this returns the size
> of the SEXP for the environment and its attributes, but does not attempt
> to work out the size of the contents of the environment.  This makes
> sense, because environments are references.  External pointers are also
> references, so their object size should be the size of the pointer
> (which is probably 28 bytes; R pointers carry a lot of baggage!), with
> no attempt to say anything about the external thing they point to.

I think it might also make sense for the code to warn this had been done.

>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>> -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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