[Rd] Crash report: regexpr("a{2-}", "")

[Henrik Bengtsson]

David's post made me realize that I got the sub()/gsub() lines wrong.
It should be:

regexpr("a{2-}", "")
sub("a{2-}", "", "")
gsub("a{2-}", "", "")

Either way, the crash is there, at on least Windows and Linux.

/Henrik

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:43 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Sep 21, 2010, at 11:04 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>
>> Each of the following calls crash ("core dumps") R (R --vanilla) on
>> various versions and OSes:
>>
>> regexpr("a{2-}", "")
>> sub("a{2-}", "")
>> gsub("a{2-}", "")
>>
>>
>> EXAMPLES:
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>>
>> R version 2.11.1 Patched (2010-09-16 r52949)
>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32 (32-bit)
>> ...
>>>
>>> regexpr("a{2-}", "")
>>
>> Assertion failed: iter->max == -1 || iter->max == 1, file
>> tre-compile.c, line 1825
>> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
>> way.
>> Please contact the application's support team for more information.
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>>
>> R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-09-14 r52910)
>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>> ...
>>>
>>> regexpr("a{2-}", "")
>>
>> Assertion failed: iter->max == -1 || iter->max == 1, file
>> tre-compile.c, line 1825
>> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
>> way.
>> Please contact the application's support team for more information.
>>
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>>
>> R version 2.11.0 Patched (2010-05-09 r51960)
>> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>> ...
>>>
>>> regexpr("a{2-}", "")
>>
>> R: tre-compile.c:1825: tre_ast_to_tnfa: Assertion `iter->max == -1 ||
>> iter->max == 1' failed.
>> Aborted
>
> Not a problem in reasonably current Mac with 64bit GUI:
>> regexpr("a{2-}", "")
> [1] 1
> attr(,"match.length")
> [1] 0
>> sub("a{2-}", "")
> Error in is.character(x) : 'x' is missing
>> gsub("a{2-}", "")
> Error in is.character(x) : 'x' is missing
>
> R version 2.11.1 Patched (2010-08-26 r52822)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
> [R.app GUI 1.35 (5612) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0]
>
> --
> David.
>>
>>
>> /Henrik
>>
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