[Rd] memory problem

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 3 May 2005 Jared.O'Connell at csiro.au wrote:

> I am undertaking my first attempt at using compiled C code within R and
> have run into this lovely problem when I call my C code (using .C).
>
> The instruction at "0x10001d1b" referenced memory at "0x01fa2000". The
> memory could not be "written".
>
> Now this doesn't happen every time and furthermore I've tested the code
> in plain C and it all works fine leading me to think has been caused by
> an insidious misuse of pointers somewhere or other.  I'm guessing I am
> overwriting some bit of memory that actually belongs to R.  However,
> before I start checking and rechecking all my memory management I just
> wanted to see if there is are any other paths I should be investigating.

If you run R under a debugger such as gdb you will get much more useful 
information.  You haven't even told us your OS: for UNIX-alikes using

 	R -d gdb

is the most common way.

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