[Rd] .Call and Segmentation Fault

[Huntsinger, Reid]

I suggest you look at the code for .Call() in dotcode.c. I suspect the
problem is in dealing with R objects, however. You don't show how you get
from SEXPs to pointers to pass to Fortran, or what the Fortran routine
requires. 

I don't understand how you can call the "same" function from C. How do you
deal with SEXPs? 

Reid Huntsinger

Reid Huntsinger
-----Original Message-----
From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org]
On Behalf Of Ricardo Luiz Andrade Abrantes
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:33 PM
To: r-devel at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [Rd] .Call and Segmentation Fault


Hello to everybody!
After reading all the C code, checking for problems, and find nothing, I 
decided something a little bit different...
If my ".so" library works in a wrog way in R it should do the same in C. So 
I created a C program that loads my library file and the executes the same 
function R is executing.
The program worked perfectly! In fact I changed two things in my library: 
The function I call now return an int, not a SEXP, and the return value is 0

not R_NilValue.
Valgrind's output is ok too... 
If .Call has no problems, and if my function works perfect when called from 
a C program, where the problem lies? Why my program becomes "crazy" when I 
run it from R?
I would apreciate very much your help! I don't where else I could find help 
on this.
I can provide any piece of code that may help, Its just ask!


Thanks,


Ricardo



On 8/28/05, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Ricardo Luiz Andrade Abrantes wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > Yes, I am returning a SEXP from the functions called from R, and the
> > problem occurs before (thousands of iterations before) the return
> > point.
> > In fact I runned valgrind into R and when I call ".Call(...) " I got
> > many errors like:
> > ==4324== Use of uninitialised value of size 8
> > ==4324== at 0x1CB0766D: tnls_ (gencan.f:4101)
> > ==4324== by 0x1CB01962: gencan_ (gencan.f:1876)
> > ==4324== by 0x1CAFECA5: easygencan_ (gencan.f:440)
> > ==4324== by 0x1CB0B47D: algencan_ (algencan.f:517)
> > ==4324== by 0x1CB09E74: easyalgencan_ (algencan.f:76)
> > ==4324== by 0x1CAFE5B3: main (algencanma.c:808)
> > what does not happens when I compile the algencanma as a regular
> > program (not a library) and run it from shell. Valgrind does not find
> > anything wrong when I run the program directly, except 2 missing
> > free() calls.
> > Do you have any ideas where the problem lies (R .Call function or C 
> program)?
> 
> It cannot be .Call: your .Call passed no parameters so there was nothing
> to be uninitialized. I did ask you why you were doing that.
> 
> .Call is very heavily tested in lots of R applications, so the prior
> probability of innocence must be very high.
> 
> --
> Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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