[Rd] getNativeSymbolInfo fails with Fortran symbol.

[Thomas Petzoldt]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> It's a bug -- unlike is.loaded, getNativeSymbolInfo seems unaware of 
> Fortran names unless registered.
> 
> Will be fixed in 2.7.0.
> 
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Setzer.Woodrow at epamail.epa.gov wrote:
> 
>>
>> In the following code routine 'initaquaphy' is defined in Fortran,
>> and dynamically loaded into R.:
>>
>> test.f:
>>
>>
>>      subroutine initaquaphy(odeparms)
>>
>>      external odeparms
>>      double precision pars(19)
>>      common /myparms/pars
>>
>>       call odeparms(19, pars)
>>
>>      return
>>      end
>>
>> $ R CMD SHLIB Aquaphy.f
>> gfortran   -fpic  -g -O2 -c test.f -o test.o
>> gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o test.so test.o  -lgfortran -lm
>>
>>
>> and linked into the package dll (or so).  Help for is.loaded() and
>> getNativeSymbolInfo() say not to use symbol.For() to convert
>> to Fortran-specific symbols.  However, on Linux, getNativeSymbolInfo
>> is unable to find 'initaquaphy' in 'test.so', but does find
>> 'initaquaphy_'.  Note that is.loaded() works as advertised.  Furthermore,
>> this code works in Windows, R-2.6.2patched44759.
>>
>> triggerbug.R:
>>
>> system("R CMD SHLIB test.f")
>> dyn.load(paste("test",.Platform$dynlib.ext,sep=""))
>> is.loaded("initaquaphy", PACKAGE="test")
>> getNativeSymbolInfo("initaquaphy_", PACKAGE="test")
>> getNativeSymbolInfo("initaquaphy", PACKAGE="test")
>> cat("All Done")
>>
>> Resulting in:
>>
>>> source("triggerbug.R", echo=TRUE, print.eval=TRUE)
>>> system("R CMD SHLIB test.f")
>> gfortran   -fpic  -g -O2 -c test.f -o test.o
>> gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o test.so test.o  -lgfortran -lm
>>
>>> dyn.load(paste("test",.Platform$dynlib.ext,sep=""))
>>> is.loaded("initaquaphy", PACKAGE="test")
>> [1] TRUE
>>
>>> getNativeSymbolInfo("initaquaphy_", PACKAGE="test")
>> $name
>> [1] "initaquaphy_"
>>
>> $address
>> <pointer: 0x1c03f0>
>> attr(,"class")
>> [1] "NativeSymbol"
>>
>> $package
>> DLL name: test
>> Filename: /home/setzer/tasks/Programming_Projects/test.so
>> Dynamic lookup: TRUE
>>
>> attr(,"class")
>> [1] "NativeSymbolInfo"
>>
>>> getNativeSymbolInfo("initaquaphy", PACKAGE="test")
>> Error in FUN("initaquaphy"[[1L]], ...) :
>>  no such symbol initaquaphy in package test
>> Have I misunderstood the help page, or is this a bug?
>>
>> --please do not edit the information below--
>>
>> Version:
>> platform = i686-pc-linux-gnu
>> arch = i686
>> os = linux-gnu
>> system = i686, linux-gnu
>> status = beta
>> major = 2
>> minor = 7.0
>> year = 2008
>> month = 04
>> day = 07
>> svn rev = 45159
>> language = R
>> version.string = R version 2.7.0 beta (2008-04-07 r45159)
>>
>> Locale:
>> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> Search Path:
>> .GlobalEnv, package:deSolve, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads,
>> package:base
>>
>> R. Woodrow Setzer, Ph. D.
>> National Center for Computational Toxicology
>> http://www.epa.gov/comptox
>> US Environmental Protection Agency
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>> Ph: (919) 541-0128    Fax: (919) 541-1194
>>
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>>
> 

Many thanks to Prof. Brian Ripley

for fixing the above mentioned issue for recent versions
of R. Unfortunately, the problem seems to persist on Linux x86/64.

The example is almost the same as above:

 > getNativeSymbolInfo("iniaqua", PACKAGE = "deSolve")$address
Error in FUN("iniaqua"[[1L]], ...) :
   no such symbol iniaqua in package deSolve
 > getNativeSymbolInfo("iniaqua_", PACKAGE = "deSolve")$address
<pointer: 0x2b5cd3aa3960>
attr(,"class")
[1] "NativeSymbol"


Thomas Petzoldt


platform "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
arch "x86_64"
os "linux-gnu"
system "x86_64, linux-gnu"
status "Under development (unstable)"
major "2"
minor "8.0"
year "2008"
month "04"
day "15"
`svn rev` "45347"
version.string "R version 2.8.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-04-15 
r45347)"

g++ (GCC) 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)


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Thomas Petzoldt
Technische Universitaet Dresden
Institut fuer Hydrobiologie        thomas.petzoldt at tu-dresden.de
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