[Rd] as.data.frame segfaults on large lists (PR#8141)

[tlumley@u.washington.edu]

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Under Valgrind on x86_64 I get
=3D=3D27405=3D=3D  Access not within mapped region at address 0x33FFEFD8
=3D=3D27405=3D=3D    at 0x447045: Rf_substituteList (coerce.c:2003)
=3D=3D27405=3D=3D Stack overflow in thread 1: can't grow stack to 0x33FFEF9=
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 =09-thomas

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> ulrich.poetter at ruhr-uni-bochum.de writes:
>
>> Full_Name: Ulrich Poetter
>> Version: 2.1.1
>> OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu FC2
>> Submission from: (NULL) (134.147.95.187)
>>
>>
>> as.data.frame() segfaults on lists with very many elements:
>>
>>> dfn <- rep(list(rep(0,2)),198000)
>>> test <- as.data.frame.list(dfn)
>>
>> Process R segmentation fault at Sun Sep 18 17:06:02 2005
>
> Not for me on FC4. The process size grows to about 180M and the system
> thrashes badly, but the calculation runs to completion.
>
> It's not unlikely that we are ignoring a failed allocation somewhere,
> but there's not much hope of finding it from the available
> information. You could try running under gdb and see where things go
> wrong for you.
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