[Rd] Ctrl-C of functions that allocated mem

[oliver]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 08:40:21PM -0400, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> 
> On Jun 8, 2011, at 8:06 PM, oliver wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 
> > what happens, when a function (R-extension in C), that allocated memory
> > (strdup(), malloc()/calloc() and so on), and is used in interactive mode, then
> > will be stopped via Ctrl-C?
> > 
> > I would assume that there remains allocated memory,
> > which is not usable and also not accessable (hence no
> > way to free it).
> > 
> > Are there any mechanisms in R that could help in rolling
> > back the allocation?
> > 
> 
> Yes, if you read R-exts:
> http://r.research.att.com/man/R-exts.html#Memory-allocation
> you would know that you're not supposed to use malloc/calloc at all and if you allow interruption ("regular" C code does not) R_alloc does what you asked about.

OK.

There are some pages I didn't read so far.

I'm just too unpatient....
...maybe should go on reading ;)

Thanks for the hint to the R-exts.html.

.... I hope there I also will find a solution for my
filename-problem: want a char* on a filename, must use
const char* (strdup() would match that issue), and
I should not use my own allocation mechanisms.
Then there must be something to address this.

Ciao,
   Oliver