[Rd] segfault on large number of open brackets (PR#7859)

[m.e.bruche at lse.ac.uk]

Full_Name: Max
Version: R 2.0.1 (2004-11-15)
OS: Gentoo Linux
Submission from: (NULL) (158.143.49.181)


I leaned on the "(" key by accident, and it looks as if R segfaults on a large
number (88 or more in my case) open brackets:

Script started on Thu May 12 15:18:04 2005
$ R

R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Version 2.0.1  (2004-11-15), ISBN 3-900051-07-0

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

> ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
(((((((((
+ (
Segmentation fault
$ uname -a
Linux max 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 #2 Sat May 7 19:24:52 GMT 2005 i686 Intel(R)
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
$ exit

Script done on Thu May 12 15:18:16 2005

Regards,

Max

R compiled with
gcc 3.3.5
glibc-2.3.4