[Rd] (PR#11281) Bug in R 2.7 for over long lines (crasher+proposed fix!)

[maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch]

>>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>>>>>     on Tue, 13 May 2008 07:32:43 +0100 (BST) writes:

    BDR> This example does not crash in R 2.7.0, R-patched nor
    BDR> R-devel (r45677) for me (x86_64 F8 Linux.)  It also
    BDR> does not crash with the CRAN build of R 2.7.0 on
    BDR> Windows XP.

Neither does it for me in R 2.7.0 
on two x86_64 Linux platforms:  
   Ubuntu 8.04 and Redhat Enterprise 5.1

Martin 

    BDR> On Tue, 13 May 2008, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:

    >> 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
    >> 
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