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

[tlumley@u.washington.edu]

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The problem is a deep recursion in substituteList, presumably from=20
substitute(list(...)) in data.frame().  This overflows the stack for large=
=20
enough lists.  Presumably the only solution is to rewrite substituteList=20
iteratively.

 =09-thomas

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Thomas Lumley wrote:

>
> 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 0x33FFE=
F98
>
>
> =09-thomas
>
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>
>> ulrich.poetter at ruhr-uni-bochum.de writes:
>>=20
>>> Full_Name: Ulrich Poetter
>>> Version: 2.1.1
>>> OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu FC2
>>> Submission from: (NULL) (134.147.95.187)
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> as.data.frame() segfaults on lists with very many elements:
>>>=20
>>>> dfn <- rep(list(rep(0,2)),198000)
>>>> test <- as.data.frame.list(dfn)
>>>=20
>>> Process R segmentation fault at Sun Sep 18 17:06:02 2005
>>=20
>> Not for me on FC4. The process size grows to about 180M and the system
>> thrashes badly, but the calculation runs to completion.
>>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
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Thomas Lumley=09=09=09Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
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