[Rd] Bug in R 2.7 for over long lines (crasher+proposed fix!) (PR#11456)

[r-ml at nn7.de]

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 11:10 +0200, maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:
> Hi Soeren,
> >>>>> "SS" == Soeren Sonnenburg <bugreports at nn7.de>
> >>>>>     on Sat, 10 May 2008 05:32:14 +0000 writes:
> 
>     SS> On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 09:38 +0200, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>     >> bugreports at nn7.de wrote: > OK, I am just sending it here
>     >> too as it looks like r-devel at r-project.org > is not the
>     >> right place:
>     >> >   
>     >> I think it was seen there too, just that noone got around
>     >> to reply. In R-bugs, there's a filing system so that it
>     >> won't be completely forgotten...
> 
>     SS> Looks like no one cares about this :(
> 
> Just "looks like" but it aint...
> 
>     SS> What should I do now? I mean I pointed directly to the
>     SS> bug and did show how it could be fixed....
> 
> I'm not among the parse experts within R-core, but I think the
> main problem with your report is that 
> you talk about a crash but do not provide "self-contained
> reproducible" code to produce such a crash, but just the
> assertion that you get crashes when working on R <-> Swig
> interaction.
> Can you construct simple R code producing the crash?

No. I put however difficult autogenerated (~800k big!) .R code that will
crash R 2.7 at http://nn7.de/debugging/Features.R for everyone to
enjoy :)

Sourcing it will crash R2.7.0 (without my fix) but not 2.8.

Soeren